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ARTICHOKE
Definition of ARTICHOKE
noun
A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf), definite form of خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.3%
of traced words share this origin (399)
branch · 1.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARTICHOKE · 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.
ARTICHOKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 20 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARTICHOKE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIKORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found ARTICHOKE?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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