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COLLECTION
Definition of COLLECTION
noun
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.
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.
COLLECTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COLLECTION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CCEILLNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, O and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COLLEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COLLECTION?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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