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CREDENTIALISM
Definition of CREDENTIALISM
noun
Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications.
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Where it comes from
From credential + -ism.
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.
CREDENTIALISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CREDENTIALISM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEIILMNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once.
Words that start CREDENTIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CREDENTIALISM?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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