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ERICOID
Definition of ERICOID
adjective
Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Erica. Of plant leaves, small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in fynbos and maquis. Of plant habit, having ericoid leaves, slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.
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Where it comes from
From Erica + -oid.
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.
ERICOID 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 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 116, 13 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ERICOID starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEIIOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found ERICOID?
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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