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PICARESQUE
Definition of PICARESQUE
adjective
Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.2%
of traced words share this origin (963)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names French, Italian, Portuguese.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PICARESQUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PICARESQUE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEIPQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PICARE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found PICARESQUE?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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