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LEECHCRAFT
Definition of LEECHCRAFT
noun
The art or practice of healing or medicine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lechecraft (“practise of medicine”), from Old English lǣċecræft (“medicine”), equivalent to leech + -craft. More at leech, craft.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,106)
branch · 22.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LEECHCRAFT · 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.
LEECHCRAFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEECHCRAFT starts with L and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACCEEFHLRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and C appear more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found LEECHCRAFT?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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