The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

EIRENICAL

9 letters

Definition of EIRENICAL

adjective

Alternative form of irenical.

IRENICAL

adjective

Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Word DNA

EIRENICAL inherits its ancestry from its root, IRENIC.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Ancient Greek
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,554)

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ic

Same root, IRENIC · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EIRENICAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 162
Its 2 boards, across 162 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
40
First board
149
Latest board
109
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

jco

on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EIRENICAL
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EIRENICAL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEEIILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once.

Words that start EIRENI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EIRENICEIRENICONEIRENICONSEIRENICALLY

Could you have found EIRENICAL?

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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER