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PERSONALS

9 letters

Definition of PERSONALS

noun

plural of personal

PERSONAL

adjective

Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).

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Word DNA

PERSONALS inherits its ancestry from its root, PERSONAL.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Old French
  3. Anglo-Norman
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,234)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-al

Same root, PERSONAL · 5 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PERSONALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 173
Its one board, across 173 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 162, 29 October 2026.

Built from these letters

PERSONALS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PERSONALS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AELNOPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

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.

Could you have found PERSONALS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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