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EMERGENCE
Definition of EMERGENCE
noun
The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; appearance. The arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French émergence. Doublet of emergency. By surface analysis, emerge + -ence.
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.
EMERGENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EMERGENCE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEEEGMNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start EMERGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EMERGENCE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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