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ACCIPITER
Definition of ACCIPITER
noun
Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin accipiter (“hawk”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACCIPITER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACCIPITER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACCEIIPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and I appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ACCIPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACCIPITER?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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