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HELIODORS

9 letters

Definition of HELIODORS

noun

plural of heliodor

HELIODOR

noun

A richly coloured form of golden beryl found in southwest Africa.

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Word DNA

HELIODORS inherits its ancestry from its root, HELIODOR.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,724)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, HELIODOR · 1 relative in the game

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.

HELIODORS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its 10 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
69
First board
149
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

lauracreature

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HELIODORS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HELIODORS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEHILOORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start HELIOD

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HELIODORS?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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