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RECIDIVIST
Definition of RECIDIVIST
noun
One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% 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.
RECIDIVIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RECIDIVIST starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIIRSTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start RECIDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RECIDIVIST?
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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
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