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HELIOTAXES
About HELIOTAXES
HELIOTAXES is a valid 10-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HELIOTAXES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELIOTAXES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEHILOSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start HELIOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HELIOTAXES?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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