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MANICLES
Definition of MANICLES
noun
plural of manicle
MANICLE
noun
On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet.
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Word DNA
MANICLES inherits its ancestry from its root, MANICLE.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,283)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MANICLE · 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.
MANICLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MANICLES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEILMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MANICL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MANICLES?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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