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PHANTASMAL
Definition of PHANTASMAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, a phantasm (“something seen but having no physical reality”); imaginary, unreal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From phantasm or phantasma (“phantasm”) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
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.
PHANTASMAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 127, 24 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHANTASMAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAAHLMNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PHANTA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHANTASMAL?
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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