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STIMULATION
Definition of STIMULATION
noun
A pushing or goading toward action.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin stimulātiō. Morphologically stimulate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STIMULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STIMULATION starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AIILMNOSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear 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 STIMULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STIMULATION?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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