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ACETYLENE
Definition of ACETYLENE
noun
Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl + -ene.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACETYLENE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACETYLENE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEEELNTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start ACETYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACETYLENE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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