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VOLITION
Definition of VOLITION
noun
A conscious choice or decision.
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Where it comes from
From French volition, from Medieval Latin volitiō (“will, volition”), from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs)).
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.
VOLITION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 143 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VOLITION starts with V and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IILNOOTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and I appear more than once.
Words that start VOLITI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found VOLITION?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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