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MICACEOUS

9 letters

Definition of MICACEOUS

adjective

Of, pertaining to, consisting of, containing or resembling mica.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From mica + -aceous. From Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”). Often erroneously associated with Latin micō (“to twinkle, glitter”) and hence with English micacious.

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 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,457)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-aceous

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

MICACEOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 141
Its one board, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

marks

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MICACEOUS
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

MICACEOUS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEIMOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Could you have found MICACEOUS?

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