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PHYSICIAN
Definition of PHYSICIAN
noun
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fisicien, from Old French fisicïen (“physician”) (modern French physicien (“physicist”)), from fisique (“art of healing”), from Latin physica (“natural science”), from Ancient Greek φυσική ἐπιστήμη (phusikḗ epistḗmē, “knowledge of nature”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “pertaining to nature”). Displaced native Middle English læche, leche, archaic English leech (“physician”). Morphologically physic + -ian.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,660)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHYSICIAN · 2 relatives 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.
PHYSICIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 70 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PHYSICIAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACHIINPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PHYSIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found PHYSICIAN?
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