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BISECTION

/baɪˈsɛkʃən/9 letters

Definition of BISECTION

noun

An act of division into two parts, especially two equal parts.

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Other senses

BISECTION carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    The act of bisecting, or cutting or dividing into two parts; specifically, the act of cutting into two equal parts; the division of any line, angle, figure, or quantity into two equal parts.

  2. noun

    One of two sections composing anything, or into which it may be divided: as, “one whole bisection of literature,”

  3. noun

    Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.

  4. noun

    A division into two parts, especially into two equal parts

Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, BISECTION · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BISECTION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 81 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 38 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
7
First board
163
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

loe

on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

BISECTION
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BISECTION starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read BCEIINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start BISECT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found BISECTION?

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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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