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SEDITION

/səˈdɪʃən/8 letters

Definition of SEDITION

noun

Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Old French sedicion, from Latin sēditiō (“sedition, discord”), from sēd- (“apart”) (an alternative form of sē-) + itiō (“going”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound

Same root, SEDITION · 2 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

SEDITION in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 164 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 44 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
44
Boards found on
23
First board
165
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

adree

on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SEDITION
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SEDITION starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read DEIINOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SEDITI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SEDITIONSSEDITIOUSSEDITIONARYSEDITIOUSLYSEDITIOUSNESSSEDITIOUSNESSES

Could you have found SEDITION?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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