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AURICULAR
Definition of AURICULAR
adjective
Of or pertaining to the ear.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin auriculāris, from auricula (“the external ear; the ear”) + -āris (“-ar”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to auricle + -ar. Doublet of auricularis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,378)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AURICULAR · 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.
AURICULAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AURICULAR starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AACILRRUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, U and R appear more than once.
Words that start AURICU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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