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REPATRIATION
Definition of REPATRIATION
noun
The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
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Where it comes from
Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.9%
of traced words share this origin (546)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REPATRIATION · 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.
REPATRIATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REPATRIATION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAEIINOPRRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, A, T and I appear more than once.
Words that start REPATRIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REPATRIATION?
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