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ELUCIDATIONS

12 letters

Definition of ELUCIDATIONS

noun

plural of elucidation

ELUCIDATION

noun

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, ELUCIDATION · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ELUCIDATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 167
Its 24 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
68
First board
165
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

christine

on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ELUCIDATIONS
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ELUCIDATIONS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIILNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start ELUCIDAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ELUCIDATIONS?

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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.

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