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LIDARS
Definition of LIDARS
noun
plural of lidar
noun
The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to measure the composition and structure of the atmosphere.
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Word DNA
LIDARS inherits its ancestry from its root, LIDAR.
How it is built
Same root, LIDAR · 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.
LIDARS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LIDARS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADILRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found LIDARS?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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