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TROCHEE
Definition of TROCHEE
noun
A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
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Other senses
TROCHEE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season.
noun
A metrical foot in quantitative verse consisting of a long syllable followed by a short one.
noun
In prosody, a foot of two syllables, the first long or accented and the second short or unaccented. The trochee of modern or accentual versification consists of an accented followed by an unaccented syllable.
noun
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, TROCHEE · 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.
TROCHEE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 157 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TROCHEE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEHORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of TROCHEE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start TROCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
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