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URTICARIA
Definition of URTICARIA
noun
Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or other conditions.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from New Latin urtīcāria, from Latin urtīca (“nettle”) + -āria.
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%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, URTICARIA · 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.
URTICARIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
URTICARIA starts with U and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACIIRRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, I and A appear more than once.
Words that start URTICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found URTICARIA?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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