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DICTATION
Definition of DICTATION
noun
Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Latin dictātiō, noun of action from dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō. By surface analysis, dictate + -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.
DICTATION 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 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 106, 3 September 2026.
Built from these letters
DICTATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDIINOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and T appear more than once.
Words that start DICTAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DICTATION?
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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