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PULSATIONS

10 letters

Definition of PULSATIONS

noun

plural of pulsation

PULSATION

noun

The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.

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Word DNA

PULSATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PULSATION.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (25,695)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ion

Same root, PULSATION · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

PULSATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

karan

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PULSATIONS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PULSATIONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AILNOPSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start PULSAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PULSATIONS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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