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AVOIDANCE
Definition of AVOIDANCE
noun
The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English avoidaunce, from avoid + -ance.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,202)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AVOIDANCE · 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.
AVOIDANCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
AVOIDANCE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEINOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AVOIDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AVOIDANCE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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