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COMPARISON

/kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/10 letters

Definition of COMPARISON

noun

The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

COMPARISON in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 9 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
30
First board
97
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

COMPARISON
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

COMPARISON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACIMNOOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start COMPAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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