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ALGUAZIL
Definition of ALGUAZIL
noun
An officer of the law in Spain or Latin America.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese alguazil, from Arabic اَلْوَزِير (al-wazīr, “minister, vizier”). Doublet of vizier and wazir.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,114)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALGUAZIL · 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.
ALGUAZIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALGUAZIL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AAGILLUZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and L appear more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found ALGUAZIL?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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