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SPORULATION
Definition of SPORULATION
noun
The process of a bacterium becoming a spore.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sporule + -ation.
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.
SPORULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPORULATION starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AILNOOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start SPORULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPORULATION?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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