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DECLINATIONS

12 letters

Definition of DECLINATIONS

noun

plural of declination

DECLINATION

noun

At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.

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Word DNA

DECLINATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, DECLINATION.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,478)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, DECLINATION · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DECLINATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 142
Its one board, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

dreadgazebo

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DECLINATIONS
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

DECLINATIONS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIILNNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and N appear more than once.

Words that start DECLINAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DECLINATIONS?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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