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BENZYL
About BENZYL
BENZYL is a valid 6-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BENZYL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 81 days.
Built from these letters
BENZYL starts with B and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read BELNYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start BENZYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found BENZYL?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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