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PLACARD
Definition of PLACARD
noun
A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English placard (“official document”), from Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from the Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque + -ard. Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (plakat, “a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,750)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLACARD · 2 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Hebrew, Icelandic, Middle Low German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PLACARD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLACARD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACDLPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PLACAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PLACARD?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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