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FOCAL
Definition of FOCAL
adjective
Belonging to, concerning, or located at a focus (definite location).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. By surface analysis, focus + -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.
FOCAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
FOCAL starts with F and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACFLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start FOCAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found FOCAL?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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