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ARCHIVAL
Definition of ARCHIVAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ARCHIVAL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARCHIVAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 90 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARCHIVAL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACHILRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ARCHIV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found ARCHIVAL?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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