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AREAL
Definition of AREAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to an area or geographic region.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin āreālis; by surface analysis, area + -al. Cognate with English areolar. False cognates include English arena, adrenal, anear.
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.
AREAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AREAL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAELR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AREAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found AREAL?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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