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ORIENTALISMS

12 letters

Definition of ORIENTALISMS

noun

plural of orientalism

ORIENTALISM

noun

The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East, especially in 19th century Europe.

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Word DNA

ORIENTALISMS inherits its ancestry from its root, ORIENTALISM.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7%

of traced words share this origin (1,806)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ism

Same root, ORIENTALISM · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ORIENTALISMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 130
Its one board, across 130 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
124
First board
6
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.

Built from these letters

ORIENTALISMS
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ORIENTALISMS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIILMNORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and S appear more than once.

Words that start ORIENTAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.

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