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HEXAFOIL

8 letters

Definition of HEXAFOIL

noun

A design with six round semicircular petals stemming from a central circle.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

HEXAFOIL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 2 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
87
First board
104
Latest board
17
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

palomarPATRON

on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HEXAFOIL
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HEXAFOIL starts with H and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEFHILOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start HEXAFO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HEXAFOIL?

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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.

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