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DIURNAL
Definition of DIURNAL
adjective
Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
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.
DIURNAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 59 boards so far. 183 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DIURNAL starts with D and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADILNRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DIURNA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found DIURNAL?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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