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PURITANICAL
Definition of PURITANICAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From puritanic + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
PURITANICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 171 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PURITANICAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACIILNPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and A appear more than once.
Words that start PURITAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PURITANICAL?
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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