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HEXACTINAL

10 letters

Definition of HEXACTINAL

adjective

Having six rays.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From hex- + actinal.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
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.

HEXACTINAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its one board, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
102
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

headfreak

on Day 102, 30 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEXACTINAL
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HEXACTINAL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACEHILNTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start HEXACT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEXACTINAL?

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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.

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