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APPOSITION
Definition of APPOSITION
noun
A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō, action noun of appōnere (“to put near”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,378)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, APPOSITION · 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.
APPOSITION 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 15 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
APPOSITION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AIINOOPPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P, O and I appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start APPOSI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found APPOSITION?
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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