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PEJORATION
Definition of PEJORATION
noun
The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin peiōrātiō. By surface analysis, pejorate + -ion.
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.
PEJORATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 63, 22 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PEJORATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIJNOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PEJORA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PEJORATION?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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