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EDUCATION
Definition of EDUCATION
noun
The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EDUCATION · 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.
EDUCATION in OUTLIER
It has fitted 21 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
EDUCATION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEINOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start EDUCAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EDUCATION?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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