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CHROMATIZE
Definition of CHROMATIZE
verb
To treat a metal surface with chromate
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From chromate + -ize.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHROMATIZE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHROMATIZE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIMORTZ - 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 CHROMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHROMATIZE?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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