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AUXETICS

8 letters

Definition of AUXETICS

noun

plural of auxetic

AUXETIC

adjective

Having the property of counterintuitively expanding when being stretched.

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Word DNA

AUXETICS inherits its ancestry from its root, AUXETIC.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,702)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, AUXETIC · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek 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.

AUXETICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 13 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
73
First board
145
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

mufeed

on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AUXETICS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AUXETICS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEISTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start AUXETI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AUXETICS?

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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.

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