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EXORHEIC

8 letters

Definition of EXORHEIC

adjective

Externally drained; having one or more outlets.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From exo- (“external”) + Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow, stream”) + -ic.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,640)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound-icexo-

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EXORHEIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 176
Its 3 boards, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
164
First board
170
Latest board
4
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 164, 31 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 170, 6 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 164, 31 October 2026.

Built from these letters

EXORHEIC
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EXORHEIC starts with E and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEEHIORX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Could you have found EXORHEIC?

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 164 - and most players walked straight past it.

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