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PROMULGATION

12 letters

Definition of PROMULGATION

noun

The act of promulgating or announcing something, especially a proclamation announcing a new law.

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Where it comes from

From Middle French promulgation, from Latin prōmulgātiō.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,861)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PROMULGATION · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PROMULGATION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 163
Its 18 boards, across 163 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
25
First board
158
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

new_pony

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PROMULGATION
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PROMULGATION starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AGILMNOOPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start PROMULGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROMULGATEPROMULGATEDPROMULGATESPROMULGATORPROMULGATINGPROMULGATORSPROMULGATIONS

Could you have found PROMULGATION?

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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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