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NAVICULA
Definition of NAVICULA
noun
A thurible in the shape of a boat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.
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.
NAVICULA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 98, 26 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NAVICULA starts with N and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACILNUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start NAVICU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NAVICULA?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
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