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LACRIMAL
Definition of LACRIMAL
adjective
Of or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal.
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.
LACRIMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LACRIMAL starts with L and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACILLMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L and A appear more than once.
Words that start LACRIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LACRIMAL?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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