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ARACHNID
Definition of ARACHNID
noun
Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
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Where it comes from
From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id. By surface analysis, arachn- + -id.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,854)
branch · 12.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARACHNID · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARACHNID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 202 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ARACHNID starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDHINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ARACHN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found ARACHNID?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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