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UDAL

/ˈjudəl/4 letters

Definition of UDAL

adjective

Allodial, inalienable.

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Where it comes from

From Icelandic óðal. More at odal. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Might this be an inherited term from Norn rather than a modern borrowing?”)

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

UDAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 112
Its 14 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
29
First board
108
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

cam0831

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

UDAL
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

UDAL starts with U and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADLU - 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 UDAL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

UDALSUDALLERUDALLERS

Could you have found UDAL?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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