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PARFOCAL
Definition of PARFOCAL
adjective
Having multiple lenses that have corresponding focal points in the same plane.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARFOCAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 73 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARFOCAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACFLOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PARFOC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PARFOCAL?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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