The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
LIGATION
Definition of LIGATION
noun
Something that ties, a ligature.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin ligatio, ligationis, from Latin ligo. Doublet of liaison.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LIGATION · 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.
LIGATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LIGATION starts with L and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AGIILNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LIGATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found LIGATION?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER