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CAPRIFIGS
Definition of CAPRIFIGS
noun
plural of caprifig
noun
A hermaphrodite fruit, inedible to humans, of certain usually uncultivated species of Ficus, which is the source of the pollen with which fig wasps pollinate edible female fruit in both cultivated and uncultivated Ficus trees.
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Word DNA
CAPRIFIGS inherits its ancestry from its root, CAPRIFIG.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAPRIFIG · 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.
CAPRIFIGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAPRIFIGS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACFGIIPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start CAPRIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CAPRIFIGS?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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