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ESCAPADE
Definition of ESCAPADE
noun
A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% 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.
ESCAPADE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 108 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ESCAPADE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEEPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and A appear more than once.
Words that start ESCAPA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found ESCAPADE?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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