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HELIOTRON
Definition of HELIOTRON
noun
A stellarator in which a helical coil is used to confine the plasma, together with a pair of poloidal field coils to provide a vertical field.
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HELIOTRON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HELIOTRON starts with H and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EHILNOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HELIOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HELIOTRON?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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