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REQUITAL

/ɹɪˈkwaɪt.əl/8 letters

Definition of REQUITAL

noun

Compensation for damage or loss; amends.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From requite + -al. First attested in 1545.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-al

Same root, REQUITAL · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

REQUITAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its 3 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
40
First board
96
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 53 days.

First ever to find it

soapytoothbrush

on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

REQUITAL
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

REQUITAL starts with R and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEILQRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

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 REQUIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found REQUITAL?

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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.

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