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QUERCETUM
Definition of QUERCETUM
noun
A wood or plantation of oak trees.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin quercetum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,450)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUERCETUM · 1 relative 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.
QUERCETUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 164, 31 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUERCETUM starts with Q and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CEEMQRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and E appear more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUERCE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUERCETUM?
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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.
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