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TRIBULATION
Definition of TRIBULATION
noun
Any adversity; a trying period or event.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.
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.
TRIBULATION 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
TRIBULATION starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABIILNORTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.
Words that start TRIBULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRIBULATION?
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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