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APRICITY
Definition of APRICITY
noun
The light or warmth of the Sun.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
APRICITY carries 2 further meanings.
noun
The warmness of the sun in winter.
noun
The warmth of the Sun in winter.
Where it comes from
From the Latin aprīcitās, noun of quality from aprīcus (“warmed by the sun”).
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
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,726)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
APRICITY in a sentence
“Thanks to the magic of the Oxford English Dictionary and people who write about dictionaries I know that I am experiencing apricity this morning.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APRICITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 104, 1 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
APRICITY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACIIPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found APRICITY?
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 104 - and most players walked straight past it.
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