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ALCIDS
Definition of ALCIDS
noun
plural of alcid
noun
A bird of the family Alcidae, including auks, auklets, razorbills, dovekies, guillemots, and puffins.
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Word DNA
ALCIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, ALCID.
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 (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALCID · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALCIDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
ALCIDS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDILS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found ALCIDS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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