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EXONERATION
Definition of EXONERATION
noun
An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin exonerātiō. By surface analysis, exonerate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EXONERATION · 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.
EXONERATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EXONERATION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEEINNOORTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E, O and N appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXONERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXONERATION?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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