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ACICULAR
Definition of ACICULAR
adjective
Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin aciculāris.
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
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,951)
branch · 30.7% 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.
ACICULAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACICULAR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACCILRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and C appear more than once.
Words that start ACICUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACICULAR?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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