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ACROLITHS

9 letters

Definition of ACROLITHS

noun

plural of acrolith

ACROLITH

noun

An ancient Greek wooden statue furnished with a rupestral head and limbs.

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Word DNA

ACROLITHS inherits its ancestry from its root, ACROLITH.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,695)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-lithacro-

Same root, ACROLITH · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

ACROLITHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its 10 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
72
First board
145
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

sbplaysgames

on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACROLITHS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ACROLITHS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHILORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ACROLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ACROLITHS?

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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