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ROTATION

/ɹoʊˈteɪʃən/8 letters

Definition of ROTATION

noun

The act of turning around a centre or an axis.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin rotātiō. By surface analysis, rotate + -ion.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ROTATION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its one board, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
106
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

sorc

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ROTATION
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ROTATION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AINOORTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.

Words that start ROTATI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ROTATINGROTATIVEROTATIONSROTATIONALROTATIVELY

Could you have found ROTATION?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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