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RETINACULUM
Definition of RETINACULUM
noun
(Can we clean up this sense?) A connecting band.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin retināculum, from retinēre (“hold back”).
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.
RETINACULUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 57 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETINACULUM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACEILMNRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start RETINAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found RETINACULUM?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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