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URCEOLUSES
Definition of URCEOLUSES
Wiktionary has no entry for URCEOLUSES itself. This is its base word, URCEOLUS.
noun
Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for URCEOLUS.
From Latin urceolus (“a little pitcher”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, URCEOLUS · 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.
URCEOLUSES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
Built from these letters
URCEOLUSES starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEELORSSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U, E and S appear more than once.
Words that start URCEOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found URCEOLUSES?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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