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SYNCARPS

8 letters

Definition of SYNCARPS

noun

plural of syncarp

SYNCARP

noun

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.

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Word DNA

SYNCARPS inherits its ancestry from its root, SYNCARP.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,633)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-carpsyn-

Same root, SYNCARP · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

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

SYNCARPS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its one board, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

viburnifolia

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SYNCARPS
8
Letters
1
Vowels
7
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SYNCARPS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACNPRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start SYNCAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SYNCARPSYNCARPYSYNCARPIESSYNCARPOUS

Could you have found SYNCARPS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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