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DOWNCOMERS
Definition of DOWNCOMERS
noun
plural of downcomer
noun
A pipe to conduct something downwards. A large external pipe in a water-tube boiler, carrying unheated water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path. A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
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Word DNA
DOWNCOMERS inherits its ancestry from its root, DOWNCOMER.
How it is built
Same root, DOWNCOMER · 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.
DOWNCOMERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 136, 3 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOWNCOMERS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEMNOORSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start DOWNCO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DOWNCOMERS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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