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DOTATION
Definition of DOTATION
noun
The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”). By surface analysis, dotate + -ion. In sense 3, borrowed from French dotation, ultimately from the same origin.
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.
DOTATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOTATION starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADINOOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.
Words that start DOTATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DOTATION?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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