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HELICONIA
Definition of HELICONIA
noun
Any of the genus Heliconia of flowering plants.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Heliconia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HELICONIA · 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.
HELICONIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 92, 20 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 92, 20 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELICONIA starts with H and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIILNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start HELICO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HELICONIA?
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 92 - and most players walked straight past it.
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