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SATURNALIA
Definition of SATURNALIA
noun
A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence; a period of unrestrained revelry.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Saturnalia (“a festival of the winter solstice”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SATURNALIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SATURNALIA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAAILNRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SATURN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SATURNALIA?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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