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AMELIORATIONS

13 letters

Definition of AMELIORATIONS

noun

plural of amelioration

AMELIORATION

noun

The act of making better.

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Word DNA

AMELIORATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, AMELIORATION.

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (334)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ion

Same root, AMELIORATION · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

AMELIORATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 7 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
82
First board
129
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

jcalyst

on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Also on

Built from these letters

AMELIORATIONS
13
Letters
7
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AMELIORATIONS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAEIILMNOORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, I and O appear more than once.

Words that start AMELIORAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AMELIORATIONS?

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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.

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