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APOTHECARY
Definition of APOTHECARY
noun
Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
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Where it comes from
From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothēcārius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apothēca (“(originally) repository, storehouse, warehouse; (later) shop, store”) + -ārius (occupational suffix), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”), literally “a place where things are put away”.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APOTHECARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
APOTHECARY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACEHOPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start APOTHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found APOTHECARY?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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