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REVOLUTION
Definition of REVOLUTION
noun
A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Late Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).
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 (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REVOLUTION · 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.
REVOLUTION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 113 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
REVOLUTION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EILNOORTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start REVOLU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found REVOLUTION?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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