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SITUATIONAL
Definition of SITUATIONAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to a particular situation or situations in general.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From situation + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SITUATION · 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.
SITUATIONAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SITUATIONAL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAIILNOSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, T and A appear more than once.
Words that start SITUATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SITUATIONAL?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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