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PIXELATIONS
Definition of PIXELATIONS
noun
plural of pixelation
noun
A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
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Another sense
PIXELATIONS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of pixelation.
Word DNA
PIXELATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PIXELATION.
How it is built
Same root, PIXELATION · 1 relative in the game
PIXELATIONS in a sentence
“What Max Capacity has done here is to transmit fabulous and excellent images through what any motherloving normal person would call an 8-Bit process: using utilities that employ the ZX Spectrum to turn regular images into true pixelations.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PIXELATIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIXELATIONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIILNOPSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
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 PIXELAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PIXELATIONS?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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