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AXICON
Definition of AXICON
noun
A specialized lens with a conical surface.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AXICON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 164, 31 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AXICON starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACINOX - 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.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found AXICON?
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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.
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