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DETECTION
Definition of DETECTION
noun
The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -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.
DETECTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DETECTION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CDEEINOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start DETECT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DETECTION?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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