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BURGLARIES
Definition of BURGLARIES
noun
plural of burglary
noun
The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal. Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony. Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.
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Word DNA
BURGLARIES inherits its ancestry from its root, BURGLARY.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BURGLARY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old 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.
BURGLARIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BURGLARIES starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEGILRRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
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 BURGLA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BURGLARIES?
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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