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CYANIDES
Definition of CYANIDES
noun
plural of cyanide
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Another sense
CYANIDES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of cyanide.
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CYANID · 3 relatives in the game
CYANIDES in a sentence
“In recent years, space scientists have discovered one comet that contains minerals created at extremely high temperatures, another that belches gases containing cyanides, one that has a surface fluffier than snow and another that has a firm surface peppered with craters.”
Hartley 2: Nasa hopes Epoxi probe will unlock mysteries of the comets, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CYANIDES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 49 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CYANIDES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEINSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CYANID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CYANIDES?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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