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MEDICATION
Definition of MEDICATION
noun
A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English medicacioun, from Middle French médication and its etymon Latin medicātiō, from medicārī (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medērī (“to heal”). Equivalent to medicate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEDICATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MEDICATION starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIIMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEDICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found MEDICATION?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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