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AMBULANCE

/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/9 letters

Definition of AMBULANCE

noun

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

AMBULANCE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 101
Its 8 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
8
Boards found on
39
First board
97
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

dgkm

on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

AMBULANCE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

AMBULANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABCELMNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start AMBULA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AMBULANCE?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 39 - and most players walked straight past it.

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