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PROLICIDES

10 letters

Definition of PROLICIDES

noun

plural of prolicide

PROLICIDE

noun

The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.

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Word DNA

PROLICIDES inherits its ancestry from its root, PROLICIDE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,072)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-cide

Same root, PROLICIDE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PROLICIDES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
170
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

zosmaPATRON

on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PROLICIDES
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PROLICIDES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEIILOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start PROLIC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PROLICIDEPROLICIDAL

Could you have found PROLICIDES?

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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.

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