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DECARBONIZES
Definition of DECARBONIZES
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of decarbonize
verb
To remove carbon from something. To clean hard sooty deposits from inside an internal combustion engine.
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Word DNA
DECARBONIZES inherits its ancestry from its root, DECARBONIZE.
How it is built
Same root, DECARBONIZE · 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.
DECARBONIZES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 177, 13 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 125, 22 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DECARBONIZES starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEEINORSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start DECARBON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DECARBONIZES?
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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.
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