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LAICITY
Definition of LAICITY
noun
The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.
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.
LAICITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 44, 3 July 2026.
Built from these letters
LAICITY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACIILTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start LAICIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found LAICITY?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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