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HALOIDS
Definition of HALOIDS
noun
plural of haloid
adjective
Resembling salt; said of certain binary compounds consisting of a metal united to a negative element or radical, and now chiefly applied to the chlorides, bromides, iodides, and sometimes the fluorides and cyanides.
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Word DNA
HALOIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, HALOID.
How it is built
Same root, HALOID · 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.
HALOIDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALOIDS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADHILOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found HALOIDS?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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