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CHICORY
Definition of CHICORY
noun
Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family. Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), source of Belgian endive, radicchio, and certain other cultivars with other names.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English cicoree, cicory, cicorea, sicory, sycory (“common chicory (Cichorium intybus); heliotrope”), from Old French cicoree (modern French chicorée (“common chicory; endive; coffee substitute made from common chicory”)), or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin cicorea, cichorea, *cichōria, from Latin cichorium, cichoreum (“common chicory; endive”), from Ancient Greek κίχορα (kíkhora), κιχόρεια (kikhóreia), neuter plural of κιχώριον (kikhṓrion, “chicory”). The English word is cognate with Italian cicórea, and is a doublet of succory.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.8%
of traced words share this origin (481)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CHICORY · 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.
CHICORY 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
CHICORY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CCHIORY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CHICORY?
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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