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BICORNS
Definition of BICORNS
noun
plural of bicorn
noun
A two-cornered hat, worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s.
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Word DNA
BICORNS inherits its ancestry from its root, BICORN.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BICORN · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French, Middle English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BICORNS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BICORNS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BCINORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BICORN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found BICORNS?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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