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TERMINAL
Definition of TERMINAL
noun
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.
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.
TERMINAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TERMINAL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEILMNRT - 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 TERMIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found TERMINAL?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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