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ARECA
Definition of ARECA
noun
Any member of the genus Areca of about fifty species of single-stemmed palms in the family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Via Portuguese from Malayalam അടയ്ക്ക (aṭaykka), itself from Proto-Dravidian *aṭ-ay-kkāy (“areca nut”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Malay
- Portuguese
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (92)
branch · 0.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARECA · 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.
ARECA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARECA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACER - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found ARECA?
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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.
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