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CURATION
Definition of CURATION
noun
The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English curacioun, curacion, from Old French curacion, from Latin cūrātiō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CURATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACINORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CURATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found CURATION?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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