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EXPISCATE
Definition of EXPISCATE
verb
To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out or rummage (for information)
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Where it comes from
From Latin expiscatus, past participle of expiscari (“to fish out”), from ex (“out”) + piscari (“to fish”), piscis (“fish”). By surface analysis, ex- + Latin pisc- + -ate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EXPISCATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 97, 25 August 2026.
Built from these letters
EXPISCATE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEIPSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXPISC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXPISCATE?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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