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ENGRAIL
Definition of ENGRAIL
verb
To make rough.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From en- + grail. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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.
ENGRAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 80, 8 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENGRAIL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEGILNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
6 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ENGRAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ENGRAIL?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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