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AURICULARS

10 letters

Definition of AURICULARS

noun

plural of auricular

AURICULAR

adjective

Of or pertaining to the ear.

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Word DNA

AURICULARS inherits its ancestry from its root, AURICULAR.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,912)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ar

Same root, AURICULAR · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin 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.

AURICULARS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 153
Its one board, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
138
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First ever to find it

samfern

on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AURICULARS
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AURICULARS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACILRRSUU - 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.

Could you have found AURICULARS?

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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.

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