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QUAGMIRICAL
Definition of QUAGMIRICAL
adjective
Having the characteristics of a quagmire
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From quagmire + -ical.
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.
QUAGMIRICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUAGMIRICAL starts with Q and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACGIILMQRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUAGMIR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUAGMIRICAL?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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