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ANCESTRIES
Definition of ANCESTRIES
noun
plural of ancestry
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Word DNA
ANCESTRIES inherits its ancestry from its root, ANCESTRY.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (854)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ANCESTRY · 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.
ANCESTRIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 62 days.
Built from these letters
ANCESTRIES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEINRSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ANCEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANCESTRIES?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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