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REFRACTION
Definition of REFRACTION
noun
The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin refrāctiō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
REFRACTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REFRACTION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEFINORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start REFRAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REFRACTION?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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