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ACINUS
Definition of ACINUS
noun
One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
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.
ACINUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACINUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACINSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ACINUS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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