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GNOMONICAL
Definition of GNOMONICAL
adjective
Alternative form of gnomonic.
adjective
Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.
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Word DNA
GNOMONICAL inherits its ancestry from its root, GNOMONIC.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,569)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GNOMONIC · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GNOMONICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GNOMONICAL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACGILMNNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GNOMON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GNOMONICAL?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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