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SORTAL
Definition of SORTAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to a sort, or kind.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
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.
SORTAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SORTAL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ALORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SORTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SORTAL?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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