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CONVECT
Definition of CONVECT
verb
To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Back-formation from convection.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CONVECT · 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.
CONVECT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONVECT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CCENOTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CONVEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONVECT?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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