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APPARITION
Definition of APPARITION
noun
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, APPARITION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APPARITION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
APPARITION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAIINOPPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, P and I appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start APPARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found APPARITION?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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