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ACCELERANTS
Definition of ACCELERANTS
noun
plural of accelerant
noun
Any substance that can bond or mix with, or disturb, another substance and cause an increase in the speed of a natural or artificial chemical process. In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson. A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
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Word DNA
ACCELERANTS inherits its ancestry from its root, ACCELERANT.
How it is built
Same root, ACCELERANT · 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.
ACCELERANTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACCELERANTS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACCEELNRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, C and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start ACCELER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACCELERANTS?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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