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OBEDIENCE
Definition of OBEDIENCE
noun
The quality of being obedient.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English obedience, from Anglo-Norman obedience, from Old French obedience (modern French obédience), from Latin oboedientia. Displaced native Old English hīersumnes (compare modern English hearsomeness). Cognate with obeisance.
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.
OBEDIENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OBEDIENCE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCDEEEINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start OBEDIE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OBEDIENCE?
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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.
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