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LEXICA
Definition of LEXICA
noun
plural of lexicon
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Another sense
LEXICA carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of lexicon.
Word DNA
LEXICA inherits its ancestry from its root, LEXICON.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, LEXICON · 2 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
LEXICA in a sentence
“Drawing from various visual and verbal lexica, some sandwich boards share imagery with Conturbatio, Nocturne, and Tube Portraits, and create their own collage, connecting disparate pieces of the world.”
Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011), 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEXICA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEXICA starts with L and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACEILX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LEXICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LEXICA?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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