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REDACTION

/ɹəˈdækʃən/9 letters

Definition of REDACTION

noun

An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.

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Where it comes from

From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

REDACTION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 95
Its 16 boards, across 95 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
31
First board
92
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.

Built from these letters

REDACTION
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

REDACTION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start REDACT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found REDACTION?

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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