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LIONIZES

8 letters

Definition of LIONIZES

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of lionize

LIONIZE

verb

To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.

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Word DNA

LIONIZES inherits its ancestry from its root, LIONIZE.

How it is built

verbcompound-ize

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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.

LIONIZES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 5 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
21
First board
125
Latest board
47
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.

First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.

Built from these letters

LIONIZES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

LIONIZES starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIILNOSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start LIONIZ

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

LIONIZELIONIZEDLIONIZERLIONIZERSLIONIZINGLIONIZATIONLIONIZATIONS

Could you have found LIONIZES?

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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.

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