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QUADRICEPS
Definition of QUADRICEPS
noun
A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin quadriceps, literally “four-headed”, from quadri- + -ceps, from quattuor (“four”) and from caput (“head”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUADRICEPS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
QUADRICEPS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIPQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUADRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found QUADRICEPS?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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