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ROBBERIES
Definition of ROBBERIES
noun
plural of robbery
ROBBERY
noun
The act or practice of robbing.
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Word DNA
ROBBERIES inherits its ancestry from its root, ROBBERY.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,506)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ROBBERY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Frankish, German, Norwegian, Old English.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROBBERIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROBBERIES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BBEEIORRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, B and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ROBBER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROBBERIES?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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