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APRICIOUS
Definition of APRICIOUS
adjective
Sunny; warmed by or basking in the sun.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin aprīcus (“warmed by the sun, sunny”) + -ous. Compare apricity.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
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.
APRICIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 149, 16 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 149, 16 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
APRICIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACIIOPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found APRICIOUS?
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 149 - and most players walked straight past it.
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