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PERSONAL
Definition of PERSONAL
adjective
Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
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.
PERSONAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PERSONAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELNOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PERSON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PERSONAL?
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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