The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CURVATION
Definition of CURVATION
noun
The act of curving or bending, or the shape of the resulting curve; curvature.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin curvatio, equivalent to curve + -ation.
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.
CURVATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CURVATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACINORTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CURVAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found CURVATION?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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