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CHROMOTYPE
Definition of CHROMOTYPE
noun
A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a chromolithograph
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From chromo- + -type.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CHROMOTYPE · 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.
CHROMOTYPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHROMOTYPE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHMOOPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CHROMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHROMOTYPE?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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