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AURORAL
Definition of AURORAL
adjective
Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From aurora + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AURORAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AURORAL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AALORRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start AURORA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AURORAL?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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