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BARBAROUS
Definition of BARBAROUS
adjective
Not classical or pure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,469)
branch · 12.3% 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.
BARBAROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 151, 18 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BARBAROUS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABBORRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B, A and R appear more than once.
Words that start BARBAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BARBAROUS?
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 151 - and most players walked straight past it.
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