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COMBUSTOR
Definition of COMBUSTOR
noun
A chamber acting as the furnace in a jet engine or turbine engine, where intense combustion is induced.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin combustor, from combūrō + -tor.
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.
COMBUSTOR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 62, 21 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 40 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 62, 21 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COMBUSTOR starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCMOORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start COMBUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COMBUSTOR?
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 62 - and most players walked straight past it.
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