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ARCHERY
Definition of ARCHERY
noun
The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,410)
branch · 12.8% 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.
ARCHERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARCHERY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEHRRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start ARCHER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARCHERY?
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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