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LIQUORICE

/ˈlɪ.k(ə).ɹɪʃ/9 letters

Definition of LIQUORICE

noun

UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.

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Where it comes from

From licorice by association with liquor.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

LIQUORICE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 7 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
23
First board
101
Latest board
33
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

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

LIQUORICE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIILOQRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start LIQUOR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found LIQUORICE?

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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.

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