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DISCALCED
Definition of DISCALCED
adjective
Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin discalceātus (“barefoot”) + -ed, rendering French déchaussé. By surface analysis, dis- + calced.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7%
of traced words share this origin (1,841)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DISCALCED 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
DISCALCED starts with D and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACCDDEILS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and C appear more than once.
Could you have found DISCALCED?
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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