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TOPARCHIES
Definition of TOPARCHIES
noun
plural of toparchy
noun
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.
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Word DNA
TOPARCHIES inherits its ancestry from its root, TOPARCHY.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,617)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TOPARCHY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOPARCHIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
Built from these letters
TOPARCHIES starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start TOPARC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TOPARCHIES?
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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