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TRAVAIL
Definition of TRAVAIL
noun
Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English travail, borrowed from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), deverbal from travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre (“to torment”), from Latin tripālium (“torture device”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of travel and travois.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TRAVAIL · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRAVAIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 155 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 18, 7 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRAVAIL starts with T and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAILRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start TRAVAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found TRAVAIL?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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