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VERRUCOSE
Definition of VERRUCOSE
adjective
Covered in warts; warty
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ose. Doublet of verrucous.
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 (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VERRUCOSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 138, 5 October 2026.
Built from these letters
VERRUCOSE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEORRSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start VERRUC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VERRUCOSE?
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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