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ORIGINAL
Definition of ORIGINAL
adjective
Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English original, from Old French original, from Late Latin orīginālis (“primitive, original”), from Latin orīgō (“beginning, source, origin”), equivalent to origin + -al; see origin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,487)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ORIGINAL · 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.
ORIGINAL in OUTLIER
It has fitted 5 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ORIGINAL starts with O and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AGIILNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start ORIGIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ORIGINAL?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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