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METICAL
Definition of METICAL
noun
The currency of Mozambique, divided into 100 centavos.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Portuguese metical, from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight”). Doublet of mithqal
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.
METICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 78, 6 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
METICAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEILMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found METICAL?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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