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PARTICULARIST
Definition of PARTICULARIST
noun
One who holds to particularism.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,514)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARTICULARIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARTICULARIST starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACIILPRRSTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, R, T and I appear more than once.
Words that start PARTICULA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARTICULARIST?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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