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MENTATION

9 letters

Definition of MENTATION

noun

Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, MENTATION · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

MENTATION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its 2 boards, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
166
First board
167
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

mygiddyauntPATRON

on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MENTATION
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

MENTATION starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIMNNOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and T appear more than once.

Words that start MENTAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MENTATION?

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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.

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