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ORBITAL
Definition of ORBITAL
adjective
Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.
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.
ORBITAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 216 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ORBITAL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABILORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ORBITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found ORBITAL?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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