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SECULAR
Definition of SECULAR
adjective
Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SECULAR · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SECULAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 450 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SECULAR starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACELRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SECULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found SECULAR?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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