The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MUSICAL
Definition of MUSICAL
adjective
Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.
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.
MUSICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MUSICAL starts with M and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACILMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MUSICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found MUSICAL?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER