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LIQUORICE
Definition of LIQUORICE
noun
UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.
noun
A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.
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Where it comes from
From licorice by association with liquor.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, LIQUORICE · 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.
LIQUORICE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
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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