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RECLUSION
Definition of RECLUSION
noun
Life as a recluse.
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Other senses
RECLUSION carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The condition of being a recluse.
noun
Punishment involving civil degradation (as in the loss of the right to own property) and incarceration with hard labor.
noun
A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
noun
Specifically, the life or condition of a recluse or immured solitary.
Where it comes from
From recluse + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, RECLUSION · 1 relative in the game
RECLUSION in a sentence
“The project manifests a clear longing for reclusion from the neighbouring constructions.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RECLUSION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RECLUSION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEILNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of RECLUSION. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RECLUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found RECLUSION?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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