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ANTICIZED

9 letters

Definition of ANTICIZED

verb

simple past and past participle of anticize

ANTICIZE

verb

To perform antics.

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Word DNA

ANTICIZED inherits its ancestry from its root, ANTIC.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Italian
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

verb

Same root, ANTIC · 8 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ANTICIZED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 2 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
160
First board
165
Latest board
5
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 160, 27 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

yhpezPATRON

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ANTICIZED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ANTICIZED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIINTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ANTICI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ANTICISEANTICITYANTICIZEANTICISEDANTICISESANTICIVICANTICIZESANTICIPANTANTICIPATEANTICISINGANTICIVISMANTICIZING

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