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MACHINAL
Definition of MACHINAL
adjective
Of, or pertaining to machines.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From machine + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MACHINAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MACHINAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACHILMN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MACHIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MACHINAL?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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