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DESALINATION
Definition of DESALINATION
noun
The process of removing salt from sea water in order to make drinking water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From de- + salination.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DESALINATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DESALINATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADEIILNNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, I and N appear 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 DESALINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DESALINATION?
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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