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TEMPORAL

/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/8 letters

Definition of TEMPORAL

adjective

Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TEMPORAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 105 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 100
Its 38 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
20
First board
98
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.

Built from these letters

TEMPORAL
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TEMPORAL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AELMOPRT - 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.

PROMETAL

Words that start TEMPOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TEMPORETEMPORALSTEMPORARYTEMPORISETEMPORIZETEMPORALLYTEMPORALTYTEMPORISEDTEMPORISERTEMPORISESTEMPORIZEDTEMPORIZER

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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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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