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COLLATION
Definition of COLLATION
noun
Bringing together. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. A collection, a gathering.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLLATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACILLNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COLLAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLATION?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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