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EDIFICATION
Definition of EDIFICATION
noun
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French, from Latin aedificationem (“building, construction”), an accusative form of aedificatio, from aedificare.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EDIFICATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EDIFICATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EDIFICATION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEFIIINOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears 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 EDIFICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EDIFICATION?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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