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CHICKPEAS
Definition of CHICKPEAS
noun
plural of chickpea
CHICKPEA
noun
An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
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Word DNA
CHICKPEAS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHICKPEA.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,444)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHICKPEA · 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.
CHICKPEAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHICKPEAS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEHIKPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CHICKP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHICKPEAS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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