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SCAPEGOATING
Definition of SCAPEGOATING
verb
present participle and gerund of scapegoat
noun
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
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Word DNA
SCAPEGOATING inherits its ancestry from its root, SCAPEGOAT.
Line of descent
- Hebrew
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (564)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCAPEGOAT · 3 relatives 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.
SCAPEGOATING 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 32 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
SCAPEGOATING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AACEGGINOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and G appear more than once.
Words that start SCAPEGOA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCAPEGOATING?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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