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DENTAL
Definition of DENTAL
adjective
Of or concerning the teeth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DENTAL · 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.
DENTAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 12, 1 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DENTAL starts with D and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADELNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DENTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found DENTAL?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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