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CATECHOLS
Definition of CATECHOLS
noun
plural of catechol
noun
The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.
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Word DNA
CATECHOLS inherits its ancestry from its root, CATECHOL.
How it is built
Same root, CATECHOL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CATECHOLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
Built from these letters
CATECHOLS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEHLOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CATECH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CATECHOLS?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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