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MEDICAL
Definition of MEDICAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French médical, from Medieval Latin medicālis, from Latin medicus. Replaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor (physician)”), which is cognate with Icelandic læknir (“doctor”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
36th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (55)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MEDICAL · 1 relative 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.
MEDICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEDICAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILM - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEDICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found MEDICAL?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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