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AXINITES

8 letters

Definition of AXINITES

noun

plural of axinite

AXINITE

noun

A borosilicate of aluminum, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

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Word DNA

AXINITES inherits its ancestry from its root, AXINITE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. French
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,302)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ite

Same root, AXINITE · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

AXINITES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 5 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
65
First board
168
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

professordrgir

on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AXINITES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

AXINITES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEIINSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start AXINIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AXINITES?

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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.

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