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HETEROAUXINS

12 letters

Definition of HETEROAUXINS

noun

plural of heteroauxin

HETEROAUXIN

noun

A growth-promoting hormone, 3-indoleacetic acid, occurring in some plants.

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Word DNA

HETEROAUXINS inherits its ancestry from its root, HETEROAUXIN.

How it is built

nouncompoundhetero-

Same root, HETEROAUXIN · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

HETEROAUXINS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 148
Its 6 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
98
First board
145
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

technomuse

on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HETEROAUXINS
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

HETEROAUXINS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEEHINORSTUX - 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 HETEROAU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HETEROAUXINS?

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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.

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