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RHAPSODIC

9 letters

Definition of RHAPSODIC

adjective

highly emotional; rapturous

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Other senses

RHAPSODIC carries 4 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Of, resembling, or characteristic of a rhapsody.

  2. adjective

    Immoderately impassioned or enthusiastic; ecstatic.

  3. Same as rhapsodical.

  4. adjective

    Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected.

Where it comes from

From Latinized form of Ancient Greek ῥαψῳδῐκός (rhapsōidĭkós).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,706)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

adjective

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

RHAPSODIC in a sentence

“My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much.”

mrissa: My rhapsodic is all shiny because I've been waxing it so much., 2010

Rarity score
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RHAPSODIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 151 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 149
Its 49 boards, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
49
Boards found on
25
First board
149
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

wordsalad

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RHAPSODIC
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

RHAPSODIC starts with R and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACDHIOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of RHAPSODIC. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

ALCAICANACREONTICCASTALIANHOMERICHUDIBRASTICPIERIANPINDARICTHEOCRITEAN

Words that start RHAPSO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

RHAPSODERHAPSODYRHAPSODESRHAPSODIESRHAPSODISERHAPSODISTRHAPSODIZERHAPSODICALRHAPSODISEDRHAPSODISESRHAPSODISTSRHAPSODIZED

Could you have found RHAPSODIC?

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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