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LOCAL
Definition of LOCAL
adjective
From or in a nearby location.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”). The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.8%
of traced words share this origin (750)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LOCAL · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LOCAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 131, 28 September 2026.
Built from these letters
LOCAL starts with L and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACLLO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start LOCAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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