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ACRE
Definition of ACRE
noun
An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English acre, aker, from Old English æcer (“field where crops are grown”), from Proto-West Germanic *akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros (“field”). Doublet of agriculture. Cognate with Scots acre, aker, acker (“acre, field, arable land”), North Frisian ecir (“field, a measure of land”), West Frisian eker (“field”), Dutch akker (“field”), German Acker (“field, acre”), Norwegian åker (“field”) and Swedish åker (“field”), Icelandic akur (“field”), Latin ager (“land, field, acre, countryside”), Ancient Greek ἀγρός (agrós, “field”), Sanskrit अज्र (ájra, “field, plain”).
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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.
ACRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ACRE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACER - 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 ACRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found ACRE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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