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MATRICIDE
Definition of MATRICIDE
noun
The killing of one's mother.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
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.
MATRICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MATRICIDE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIIMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MATRIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found MATRICIDE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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