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ALULA
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).
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.
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
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
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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