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CALICO
Definition of CALICO
noun
A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Malay
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (87)
branch · 0.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CALICO · 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.
CALICO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALICO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACCILO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C 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.
Could you have found CALICO?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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