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EXPLICIT
Definition of EXPLICIT
adjective
Very specific, clear, or detailed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French explicite, from Latin explicitus (“disentangled, easy”), variant of explicātus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,888)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, EXPLICIT · 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.
EXPLICIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First found by a player on Day 87, 15 August 2026.
Built from these letters
EXPLICIT starts with E and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEIILPTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXPLIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXPLICIT?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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