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CANCERATION
Definition of CANCERATION
noun
The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cancer + -ation.
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.
CANCERATION in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 137 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANCERATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AACCEINNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, A and N appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CANCERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found CANCERATION?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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