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VERMICULATION
Definition of VERMICULATION
noun
The process of being turned into a worm.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin vermiculātiōnem, from vermiculor (“to be worm-eaten, to be wormy”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots)). The Latin verb is from vermis (“worm”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”), possibly from *wer- (“to turn”)).
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.
VERMICULATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
VERMICULATION starts with V and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEIILMNORTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start VERMICULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VERMICULATION?
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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