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ISOBUTANES

10 letters

Definition of ISOBUTANES

noun

plural of isobutane

ISOBUTANE

noun

A hydrocarbon, a particular isomer of C4H10 found in natural gas.

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Word DNA

ISOBUTANES inherits its ancestry from its root, ISOBUTANE.

How it is built

nouncompoundiso-

Same root, ISOBUTANE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ISOBUTANES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 144
Its one board, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
4
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

ranamar

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ISOBUTANES
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ISOBUT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ISOBUTYLISOBUTANEISOBUTENEISOBUTYLSISOBUTENESISOBUTYLENEISOBUTYLENES

Could you have found ISOBUTANES?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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