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SCALAR
Definition of SCALAR
adjective
Having magnitude but not direction.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.
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
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Irish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCALAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 90 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SCALAR starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACLRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SCALAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found SCALAR?
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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