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EGOISTICAL
Definition of EGOISTICAL
adjective
Caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From egoistic + -al.
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.
EGOISTICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EGOISTICAL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEGIILOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start EGOIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EGOISTICAL?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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