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EMOTION
Definition of EMOTION
noun
Movement; agitation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).
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.
EMOTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 49, 8 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.
First found by a player on Day 3, 24 May 2026.
Built from these letters
EMOTION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EIMNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start EMOTIO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found EMOTION?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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