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ALULA

/ˈæljuːlə/5 letters

Definition of ALULA

noun

A small projection of three or four feathers on the first digit of the wing on some birds.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin ala (“wing”) + English -ula.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ALULA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
110
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

shoebill

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ALULA
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ALULA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AALLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and L appear more than once. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.

Words that start ALULA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ALULAEALULARALULAS

Could you have found ALULA?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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