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TOPICALS

8 letters

Definition of TOPICALS

noun

plural of topical

TOPICAL

adjective

Relating to a particular topic or subject.

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Word DNA

TOPICALS inherits its ancestry from its root, TOPICAL.

How it is built

nouncompound-al

Same root, TOPICAL · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

TOPICALS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 154
Its 22 boards, across 154 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
20
First board
150
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

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

Built from these letters

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

TOPICALS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACILOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start TOPICA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found TOPICALS?

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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