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PICRA
Definition of PICRA
noun
The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
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Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin picra, from Ancient Greek πίκρα (píkra, “a kind of antidote”), from πικρός (pikrós, “sharp, bitter”).
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.
PICRA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
Built from these letters
PICRA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACIPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PICRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PICRA?
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