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CAPITAL
Definition of CAPITAL
noun
Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective. In the fourth sense, displaced native Old English hēafodburg, equivalent to head + borough (“city”). Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Doublet of cattle and chattel.
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.
CAPITAL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 25 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAPITAL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACILPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CAPITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 17
Could you have found CAPITAL?
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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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