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COMBUSTIVE
Definition of COMBUSTIVE
adjective
Of, pertaining to, caused by, or partaking in combustion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin combustīvus, from combūrō + -īvus. By surface analysis, combust + -ive.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COMBUSTIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMBUSTIVE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BCEIMOSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start COMBUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found COMBUSTIVE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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