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PASTORAL
Definition of PASTORAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% 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.
PASTORAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 133 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PASTORAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AALOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PASTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PASTORAL?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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