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CHEMISM

7 letters

Definition of CHEMISM

noun

Chemical attraction.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Compare French chimisme. See chemistry.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,521)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CHEMISM · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

CHEMISM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 174
Its one board, across 174 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
21
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.

First ever to find it

cancross

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CHEMISM
7
Letters
2
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHEMISM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CEHIMMS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once.

Words that start CHEMIS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHEMISM?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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