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UXORICIDE
Definition of UXORICIDE
noun
One who murders one's wife.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
UXORICIDE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The killing of a wife by her spouse.
noun
One who kills one's wife.
noun
One who slays his wife.
noun
The killing of a wife by her husband.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French uxoricide or Latin uxor + English -icide.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, UXORICIDE · 1 relative in the game
UXORICIDE in a sentence
“This haste was rather forced on the story because the centrepiece of the episode was to be the trial of Bates the valet, on charges of uxoricide, and, though the series has not always been a stickler for historical accuracy, most viewers would have known that the courts knock off over the holidays.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UXORICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UXORICIDE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIORUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start UXORIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found UXORICIDE?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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