The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
AUDIATION
Definition of AUDIATION
noun
The comprehension and internal realization of music by an individual in the absence of any physical sound.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Presumably audio + -ation, coined by American music researcher and educator Edwin E. Gordon (1927–2015), possibly in Learning Sequence and Patterns in Music (1976).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AUDIATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 175, 11 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUDIATION starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADIINOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Could you have found AUDIATION?
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 160 - and most players walked straight past it.
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