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BICORNE
Definition of BICORNE
noun
Alternative form of bicorn (“two-cornered hat”).
noun
A two-cornered hat, worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French bicorne, from Latin bicornis. Doublet of bicorn.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,914)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BICORNE · 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.
BICORNE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BICORNE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEINOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start BICORN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found BICORNE?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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