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ALKALIS
Definition of ALKALIS
noun
plural of alkali
noun
One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
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Word DNA
ALKALIS inherits its ancestry from its root, ALKALI.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (1,172)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ALKALI · 11 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALKALIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 173, 9 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ALKALIS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAIKLLS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and L appear more than once.
Words that start ALKALI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ALKALIS?
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 173 - and most players walked straight past it.
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