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PARANORMAL
Definition of PARANORMAL
adjective
Of events, experiences, or phenomena, that cannot be explained by current scientific understanding or natural laws.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From para- (“beyond”) + normal; compare supernatural. First use appears c. 1905.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PARANORMAL · 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.
PARANORMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARANORMAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAALMNOPRR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and R appear more than once.
Words that start PARANO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARANORMAL?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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