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ANTICARIES
Definition of ANTICARIES
adjective
Preventing or countering caries.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From anti- + caries.
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.
ANTICARIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
Built from these letters
ANTICARIES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEIINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Words that start ANTICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANTICARIES?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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