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MUNICIPAL
Definition of MUNICIPAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).
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.
MUNICIPAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 88 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MUNICIPAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACIILMNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start MUNICI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found MUNICIPAL?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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