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CHILLUMS

8 letters

Definition of CHILLUMS

noun

plural of chillum

CHILLUM

noun

A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.

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Word DNA

CHILLUMS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHILLUM.

Line of descent

  1. Persian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Persian

Deepest traced root

18th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.6%

of traced words share this origin (511)

Iranian

branch · 0.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CHILLUM · 1 relative in the game

Every Persian word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

CHILLUMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
18
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

crookedknight

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

Built from these letters

CHILLUMS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CHILLUMS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CHILLMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start CHILLU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CHILLUMS?

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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