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PERAMBULATION
Definition of PERAMBULATION
noun
A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PERAMBULATION carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The act of perambulating, or of passing or wandering through or over.
noun
A traveling survey or inspection; a survey.
noun
A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdiction.
noun
A method used in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in the United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments or marks of boundaries between the possessions of neighboring tenants, and between neighboring parishes, and thus to some extent of deciding disputed tenancies and rights of possession, and questions of taxation.
Where it comes from
From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PERAMBULATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERAMBULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PERAMBULATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABEILMNOPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PERAMBULATION. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PERAMBULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found PERAMBULATION?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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