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YUCCA

/ˈjʌkə/5 letters

Definition of YUCCA

noun

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

YUCCA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 2 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
90
First board
111
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

jrcartmell

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

YUCCA
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

YUCCA starts with Y and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACCUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start YUCCA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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