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LIMOUSINE

/ˌlɪm.əˈziːn/9 letters

Definition of LIMOUSINE

noun

An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm. First attested in 1902.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,330)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

LIMOUSINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 56 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 14 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
5
First board
165
Latest board
37
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.

Built from these letters

LIMOUSINE
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

LIMOUSINE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIILMNOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start LIMOUS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

LIMOUSLIMOUSINES

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