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JACKAL
Definition of JACKAL
noun
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Ottoman Turkish چقال (çakâl), from Classical Persian شغال (šaġāl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”), the alternative form of सृगाल (sṛgāla).
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.
JACKAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
JACKAL starts with J and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACJKL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JACKAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found JACKAL?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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