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GOETHITES
Definition of GOETHITES
noun
plural of goethite
noun
An iron oxyhydroxide that is the main constituent of rust and in mineral form is an ore.
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Word DNA
GOETHITES inherits its ancestry from its root, GOETHITE.
Line of descent
- German
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (2,869)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GOETHITE · 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.
GOETHITES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 173, 9 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GOETHITES starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGHIOSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found GOETHITES?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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