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ARBITRATION
Definition of ARBITRATION
noun
The act or process of arbitrating.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English arbitracion, borrowed from Old French arbitration, from Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari (“to arbitrate, judge”); see arbitrate.
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
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARBITRATION · 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.
ARBITRATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARBITRATION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABIINORRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, R, I and T appear more than once.
Words that start ARBITRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARBITRATION?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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