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ANCIENTRY
Definition of ANCIENTRY
noun
The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ancient + -ry.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANCIENTRY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANCIENTRY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEINNRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start ANCIEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANCIENTRY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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