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ANILINES

8 letters

Definition of ANILINES

noun

plural of aniline

ANILINE

noun

The simplest aromatic amine, C6H5NH2, synthesized by the reduction of nitrobenzene; it is a colourless oily basic poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals.

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Word DNA

ANILINES inherits its ancestry from its root, ANILINE.

Line of descent

  1. Portuguese
  2. German
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Portuguese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (106)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-in

Same root, ANILINE · 1 relative in the game

Every Portuguese 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.

ANILINES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 141
Its one board, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

player_2

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ANILINES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ANILINES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIILNNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and I appear more than once.

Words that start ANILIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ANILINANILINEANILINSANILINGUSANILINCTUSANILINGUSESANILINCTUSES

Could you have found ANILINES?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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