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ALIF
Definition of ALIF
noun
The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʔalif).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Arabic أَلِف (ʔalif). Doublet of aleph and alpha.
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.
ALIF in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 122, 19 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALIF starts with A and ends with F. Sorted, its letters read AFIL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ALIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALIF?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
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