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TERMINOLOGY
Definition of TERMINOLOGY
noun
A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,577)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TERMINOLOGY · 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.
TERMINOLOGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
TERMINOLOGY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGILMNOORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start TERMINO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found TERMINOLOGY?
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