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COMPURGATION
Definition of COMPURGATION
noun
Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin compurgātiōnem, from compurgāre (“to purify”).
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.
COMPURGATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMPURGATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACGIMNOOPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMPURGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMPURGATION?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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