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APHICIDE
Definition of APHICIDE
noun
Any pesticide intended to kill aphids
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From aphid + -cide.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, APHICIDE · 1 relative 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.
APHICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 69 days.
Built from these letters
APHICIDE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHIIP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found APHICIDE?
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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