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FALCATIONS

10 letters

Definition of FALCATIONS

noun

plural of falcation

FALCATION

noun

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle.

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Word DNA

FALCATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, FALCATE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,817)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-atefalc-

Same root, FALCATE · 3 relatives 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.

FALCATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 2 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
155
First board
160
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

amytornis

on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

FALCATIONS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

FALCATIONS starts with F and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACFILNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start FALCAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found FALCATIONS?

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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.

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