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ACETOXYL

8 letters

Definition of ACETOXYL

noun

The acetate group, CH3COO-, when viewed as a substituent

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, ACETOXYL · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

ACETOXYL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 15 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
15
Boards found on
65
First board
168
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

drwhodathunkit

on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACETOXYL
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ACETOXYL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACELOTXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ACETOX

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ACETOXIMEACETOXYLS

Could you have found ACETOXYL?

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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.

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