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DEPOPULATION
Definition of DEPOPULATION
noun
The act of depopulating or condition of being depopulated; the destruction or expulsion of inhabitants.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English depopulacion (also spelled depopulacyoun, depopolacion), borrowed from Latin dēpopulātiō. By surface analysis, depopulate + -ion.
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.
DEPOPULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEPOPULATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADEILNOOPPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and O appear more than once.
Words that start DEPOPULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEPOPULATION?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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