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ORIENTATION
Definition of ORIENTATION
noun
The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French orientation. By surface analysis, orient + -ation.
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.
ORIENTATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 119 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 3, 24 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORIENTATION starts with O and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIINNOORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, I, N and T appear more than once.
Words that start ORIENTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found ORIENTATION?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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