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ARCHBISHOPRICS

14 letters

Definition of ARCHBISHOPRICS

noun

plural of archbishopric

ARCHBISHOPRIC

noun

The rank or office of an archbishop.

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Word DNA

ARCHBISHOPRICS inherits its ancestry from its root, ARCHBISHOPRIC.

Line of descent

  1. Old English
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Old English

Deepest traced root

6th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

4.2%

of traced words share this origin (1,197)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ric

Same root, ARCHBISHOPRIC · 1 relative in the game

Every Old English word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ARCHBISHOPRICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 143
Its one board, across 143 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

surliertexanSUPPORTER

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARCHBISHOPRICS
14
Letters
4
Vowels
10
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ARCHBISHOPRICS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCCHHIIOPRRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, C, H, I and S appear more than once.

Words that start ARCHBISHOP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ARCHBISHOPRICS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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