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HYDROGELS
Definition of HYDROGELS
noun
plural of hydrogel
noun
A colloid gel in which water is the continuous phase; they have a number of medical and industrial applications.
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Word DNA
HYDROGELS inherits its ancestry from its root, HYDROGEL.
How it is built
Same root, HYDROGEL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYDROGELS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 71, 30 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 71, 30 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYDROGELS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGHLORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HYDROG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYDROGELS?
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 71 - and most players walked straight past it.
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