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SIMULATION
Definition of SIMULATION
noun
Something that simulates a system or environment in order to predict actual behaviour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French simulation/simulacion, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō (“imitate”). Morphologically simulate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 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, SIMULATION · 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.
SIMULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 70 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SIMULATION starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AIILMNOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start SIMULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found SIMULATION?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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