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PERSPIRATION
Definition of PERSPIRATION
noun
The action or process of perspiring.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”). Morphologically perspire + -ation.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERSPIRATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PERSPIRATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEIINOPPRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P, R and I appear more than once.
Words that start PERSPIRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PERSPIRATION?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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