The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
EMULATIONS
Definition of EMULATIONS
noun
plural of emulation
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
EMULATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, EMULATION.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EMULATION · 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.
EMULATIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EMULATIONS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILMNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start EMULAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found EMULATIONS?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER