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DEFAMATION
Definition of DEFAMATION
noun
The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
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Where it comes from
From Old French diffamacion (French diffamation), from Latin diffāmātiō. By surface analysis, defame + -ation.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DEFAMATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEFAMATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DEFAMATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADEFIMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start DEFAMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found DEFAMATION?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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