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CHELATIONS

10 letters

Definition of CHELATIONS

noun

plural of chelation

CHELATION

noun

The formation of a polydentate chelate compound from a metal salt.

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Word DNA

CHELATIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHELATION.

How it is built

nouncompound-ion

Same root, CHELATION · 1 relative in the game

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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.

CHELATIONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 37 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
37
Boards found on
41
First board
149
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

roswell

on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHELATIONS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CHELATIONS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHILNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start CHELAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHELATIONS?

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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.

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