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REVELATION
Definition of REVELATION
noun
The act of revealing or disclosing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English revelacioun, from Old French revelacion, from Latin revēlātiō (“disclosure”), from revēlō (“to disclose”), re (“again”) + vēlō (“to cover”); by surface analysis, revelate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REVELATION · 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.
REVELATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
REVELATION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEEILNORTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start REVELA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found REVELATION?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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