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MEDICALS
Definition of MEDICALS
noun
plural of medical
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Word DNA
MEDICALS inherits its ancestry from its root, MEDICAL.
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 (53)
branch · 22.4% 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.
MEDICALS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 55, 14 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MEDICALS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 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 55
Could you have found MEDICALS?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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