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OCCASIONAL
Definition of OCCASIONAL
adjective
Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English occasyonal, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnālis and Old French ocasionel. By surface analysis, occasion + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.8%
of traced words share this origin (751)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OCCASIONAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OCCASIONAL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACCILNOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, C and A appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start OCCASI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OCCASIONAL?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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