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ALCAIDE
Definition of ALCAIDE
noun
The governor or commander of a Spanish or Portuguese fortress or prison.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish alcaide, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid, “leader”); Doublet of caid and Alkaid.
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.
ALCAIDE 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 19 days.
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
ALCAIDE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEIL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ALCAID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALCAIDE?
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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