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ALCHEMY
Definition of ALCHEMY
noun
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
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Where it comes from
From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “ingot, bar”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,660)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALCHEMY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALCHEMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 101 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ALCHEMY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEHLMY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ALCHEM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found ALCHEMY?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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