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LIANOID
Definition of LIANOID
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a liana.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From liana + -oid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LIANOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 135, 2 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LIANOID starts with L and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADIILNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Could you have found LIANOID?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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