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PACATION
Definition of PACATION
noun
pacifying, placation
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin pacatio.
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.
PACATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 88, 16 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PACATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AACINOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A 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 PACATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PACATION?
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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.
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