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BIFURCATIONS
Definition of BIFURCATIONS
noun
plural of bifurcation
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Another sense
BIFURCATIONS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of bifurcation.
Word DNA
BIFURCATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, BIFURCATE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BIFURCATE · 7 relatives in the game
BIFURCATIONS in a sentence
“These interacting complex structures exhibit thermodynamic and evolutionary features thought to be peculiar only to living matter such as bifurcations that serve as ` memory marks ', self-duplication, metabolic rates in a thermodynamically open system, and non-Hamiltonian dynamics.”
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en], 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BIFURCATIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 122 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BIFURCATIONS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCFIINORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start BIFURCAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found BIFURCATIONS?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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