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HISTRIONIC
Definition of HISTRIONIC
adjective
Of or relating to actors or acting.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin histriōnicus (“pertaining to acting; scurrilous, shameful; wretched”), from Latin histriōnicus (“pertaining to acting and the theatre”), from histriō (“actor, player”) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). By surface analysis, histrion + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
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.
HISTRIONIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HISTRIONIC starts with H and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CHIIINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start HISTRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HISTRIONIC?
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