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LIQUORICE
Definition of LIQUORICE
noun
UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From licorice by association with liquor.
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.
LIQUORICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
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.
Also on
Built from these letters
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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