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LUCIFORM

8 letters

Definition of LUCIFORM

adjective

Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin lux, lucis (“light”) + -form.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (25,170)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-form

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.

LUCIFORM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its one board, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

mountaingirl

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

LUCIFORM
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LUCIFORM starts with L and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CFILMORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found LUCIFORM?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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