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EPIFAUNAL
Definition of EPIFAUNAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to epifauna.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From epifauna + -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.
EPIFAUNAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 77 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EPIFAUNAL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAEFILNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start EPIFAU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EPIFAUNAL?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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