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POLITIQUE
Definition of POLITIQUE
noun
A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French politique, from Latin politicus. Doublet of politic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% 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.
POLITIQUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POLITIQUE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIILOPQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start POLITI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found POLITIQUE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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