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POTICARY
Definition of POTICARY
noun
Obsolete form of apothecary.
noun
Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
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Word DNA
POTICARY inherits its ancestry from its root, APOTHECARY.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Old French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,280)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, APOTHECARY · 4 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTICARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTICARY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACIOPRTY - 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 POTICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POTICARY?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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