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DOCIOUS
Definition of DOCIOUS
adjective
Docile, amenable to order.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Related to docity. Ultimately from Latin doceō (“to teach”); see -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOCIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 147, 14 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOCIOUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDIOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found DOCIOUS?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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