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PONTIFICAL
Definition of PONTIFICAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to a pontiff. Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal. Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PONTIFICAL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PONTIFICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 234 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PONTIFICAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACFIILNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PONTIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found PONTIFICAL?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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