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EVAGATION

/ˌɛvəˈɡeɪʃən/9 letters

Definition of EVAGATION

noun

A wandering about, excursion, trip or a roving.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French evagation, evagacion or its etymon Latin ēvagātiō, from ēvagārī (“to wander forth”). See also vagary.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,726)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllables

Same root, EVAGATION · 1 relative in the game

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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.

EVAGATION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 161
Its 15 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
70
First board
156
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

sayah

on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EVAGATION
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EVAGATION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEGINOTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start EVAGAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EVAGATION?

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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.

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