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ALVEOLI

/ˌal.viˈəʊ.laɪ/7 letters

Definition of ALVEOLI

noun

plural of alveolus

ALVEOLUS

noun

A small cavity or pit. Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs in which the bronchioles terminate and where oxygen and carbon dioxide are rapidly exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries.

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Word DNA

ALVEOLI inherits its ancestry from its root, ALVEOLUS.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.7%

of traced words share this origin (26,371)

Italic

branch · 30.7% of traced words

How it is built

noun4 syllables

Same root, ALVEOLUS · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ALVEOLI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 175
Its 5 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
137
First board
173
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

jeffjk

on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ALVEOLI
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ALVEOLI starts with A and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AEILLOV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.

Words that start ALVEOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ALVEOLAALVEOLEALVEOLARALVEOLESALVEOLUSALVEOLARSALVEOLATEALVEOLARLYALVEOLITISALVEOLATION

Could you have found ALVEOLI?

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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.

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