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DECIMATION
Definition of DECIMATION
noun
The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare septimation and vicesimation.
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.
DECIMATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DECIMATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIIMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
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 DECIMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DECIMATION?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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