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RACEMOUS
Definition of RACEMOUS
adjective
Alternative form of racemose.
adjective
Having flowers arranged along a single central axis, as in a raceme, spike, or catkin.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Compare French racémeux.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,903)
branch · 15.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RACEMOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RACEMOUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEMORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start RACEMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RACEMOUS?
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