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PATRICIDE
Definition of PATRICIDE
noun
The murder of one's father.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French patricide or Latin patricīdium. Equivalent to patri- + -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.
PATRICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 110 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 9, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATRICIDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIIPRT - 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 PATRIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found PATRICIDE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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