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SURREAL
Definition of SURREAL
adjective
Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A back-formation from surrealism, equivalent to sur- + real.
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.
SURREAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SURREAL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SURREA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SURREAL?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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