The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

ICHOROUS

8 letters

Definition of ICHOROUS

adjective

Resembling or relating to ichor.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Other senses

ICHOROUS carries 4 further meanings.

  1. Like ichor; thin; watery; serous.

  2. Full of ichor; ichorose.

  3. adjective

    Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

  4. adjective

    of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies

    “the sanious discharge from an ulcer”

Where it comes from

From ichor + -ous.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ous

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

ICHOROUS in a sentence

“And you know what that tiny, ichorous lizard that lives in my black heart is uniquely attuned to?”

Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer, 2010

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.

ICHOROUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 48 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
48
Boards found on
20
First board
149
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ICHOROUS
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ICHOROUS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CHIOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of ICHOROUS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

Could you have found ICHOROUS?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

Play today's OUTLIER

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Senses and citation via Wordnik.