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RELEGATION
Definition of RELEGATION
noun
The act of being relegated Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RELEGATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RELEGATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 114 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
RELEGATION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEEGILNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RELEGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found RELEGATION?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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