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ALEXANDERS
Definition of ALEXANDERS
noun
Any of various umbellifers, often specifically Smyrnium olusatrum or Heracleum maximum, the cow parsnip.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French alisander, apparently named for Alexander the Great, for one or more species thought to be endemic to Macedonia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7%
of traced words share this origin (1,841)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALEXANDER · 1 relative 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.
ALEXANDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 119, 16 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALEXANDERS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AADEELNRSX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ALEXAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALEXANDERS?
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 119 - and most players walked straight past it.
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