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PATRIFOCAL
Definition of PATRIFOCAL
adjective
patriarchal
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From patri- + focal.
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.
PATRIFOCAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 84 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATRIFOCAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACFILOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found PATRIFOCAL?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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