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ACQUIS
Definition of ACQUIS
noun
Ellipsis of acquis communautaire. The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of European Union law.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Shortened from acquis communautaire: French acquis (“that has been acquired or obtained”) + communautaire (“of the community”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACQUIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACQUIS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACIQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ACQUIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACQUIS?
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 101 - and most players walked straight past it.
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