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ARIDIC

6 letters

Definition of ARIDIC

adjective

Bordering an arid region

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From arid + -ic.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ic

Same root, ARID · 4 relatives in the game

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.

ARIDIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 2 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
141
First board
155
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

headerpants

on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARIDIC
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found ARIDIC?

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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.

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