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PIACULARITY
Definition of PIACULARITY
noun
The quality of being piacular, of requiring atonement.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin piaculariter (“by way of atonement; sinfully”), piacularius (“atoning, expiatory”) from piaculo (“to appease or propitiate with an offering”). See pius (“dutiful”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.4%
of traced words share this origin (8,360)
branch · 32.4% 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.
PIACULARITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 128, 25 September 2026.
Built from these letters
PIACULARITY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACIILPRTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and A appear more than once.
Could you have found PIACULARITY?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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