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ACRYLICS

/əˈkɹɪlɪks/8 letters

Definition of ACRYLICS

noun

plural of acrylic

ACRYLIC

adjective

Derived from acrylic acid or acrylonitrile.

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Word DNA

ACRYLICS inherits its ancestry from its root, ACRYLIC.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33%

of traced words share this origin (9,478)

Italic

branch · 33% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-ic

Same root, ACRYLIC · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin 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.

ACRYLICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 142
Its one board, across 142 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
131
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

thebarge

on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACRYLICS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ACRYLICS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCILRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.

Words that start ACRYLI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ACRYLICS?

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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