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EXIGENCY
Definition of EXIGENCY
noun
The demands or requirements of a situation which often demand immediate action.
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Other senses
EXIGENCY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A pressing or urgent situation.
noun
An urgent requirement; a pressing need.
noun
The state of being urgent; pressing need or demand; urgency: as, the exigency of the case or of business.
noun
A pressing necessity; an urgent case; any case which demands prompt action, supply, or remedy: as, in the present exigency no time is to be lost.
Where it comes from
From Middle French exigence, from Late Latin exigentia (“urgency”) (from exigēns + -ia), from exigere (“to demand”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EXIGENCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 155 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 87, 15 August 2026.
Built from these letters
EXIGENCY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEEGINXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of EXIGENCY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start EXIGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXIGENCY?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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