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AMPHOLYTE

9 letters

Definition of AMPHOLYTE

noun

An amphoteric electrolyte

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Blend of amphoteric + electrolyte, coined by Australian physiologist and biochemist Thorburn Brailsford Robertson in 1906.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

AMPHOLYTE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 2 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
72
First board
110
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Words that start AMPHOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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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