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HYDROGENOUS
Definition of HYDROGENOUS
adjective
of, related to, or containing hydrogen
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hydrogen + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYDROGENOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 14, 3 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 14, 3 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HYDROGENOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEGHNOORSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start HYDROGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 14
Could you have found HYDROGENOUS?
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 14 - and most players walked straight past it.
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