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HELIOLATRY

/ˌhi.liˈɑl.ə.tɹi/10 letters

Definition of HELIOLATRY

noun

The worship of the sun as an actual religion or mythos.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From helio- + -latry.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HELIOLATRY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 2 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
110
First board
117
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

kathrynth

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HELIOLATRY
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HELIOLATRY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEHILLORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.

Words that start HELIOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HELIOLOGYHELIOLATERHELIOLATERSHELIOLITHICHELIOLOGIESHELIOLOGISTHELIOLATRIESHELIOLATROUSHELIOLOGICAL

Could you have found HELIOLATRY?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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