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TRICORN
Definition of TRICORN
noun
A three-cornered hat, with the brim turned up.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin tricornis (“three-horned; three-pronged”). By surface analysis, tri- + -corn. Compare French tricorne (“three-cornered hat”). Doublet of tricorne.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TRICORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRICORN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CINORRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start TRICOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TRICORN?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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