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PSYCHOTIC
Definition of PSYCHOTIC
adjective
Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Derived in English from psychosis + -tic; compare French psychotique, German psychotisch. Attested from the late 19th century. Compare earlier neurotic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PSYCHOTIC · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names French, 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.
PSYCHOTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 34 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PSYCHOTIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CCHIOPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start PSYCHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PSYCHOTIC?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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