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NORMAL
Definition of NORMAL
adjective
According to norms or rules or to a regular pattern.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square; later: according to a rule”), from nōrma (“carpenter's square”), of uncertain origin; doublet of normale. The earliest meaning of the word in English was "perpendicular; forming a right angle" like something normālis (“made according to a carpenter's square”), but by Late Latin normālis had also come to mean "according to a rule", from which modern English senses of the word derive: in the 1800s, as people began to quantitatively study things like height, weight and blood pressure, the usual or most common values came to be called "normal", and by extension values regarded as healthy or desirable came to be called "normal" regardless of their usuality.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, NORMAL · 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.
NORMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NORMAL starts with N and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ALMNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NORMAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found NORMAL?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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