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BICORNES
Definition of BICORNES
noun
plural of bicorne
BICORN · via bicorne
noun
A two-cornered hat, worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s.
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Word DNA
BICORNES inherits its ancestry from its root, BICORNE.
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 (23,888)
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.
BICORNES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BICORNES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCEINORS - 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 52
Could you have found BICORNES?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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