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ESTIVAL
Definition of ESTIVAL
adjective
Of or relating to summer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
ESTIVAL carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Of, relating to, or appearing in summer.
Pertaining or appropriate to summer.
Same as æstival, æstivate, etc.
adjective
Coming forth in the summer.
Where it comes from
From Middle English estival, from Old French estival, from Latin aestivalis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,613)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
ESTIVAL in a sentence
“But the real masters of estival retreat were the Romans and the Renaissance popes and princes who followed them into the hills of Latium.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ESTIVAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 14, 3 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESTIVAL starts with E and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEILSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of ESTIVAL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start ESTIVA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found ESTIVAL?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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