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NACELLE
Definition of NACELLE
noun
The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew. The cockpit of an aircraft.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NACELLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NACELLE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEELLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and L appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start NACELL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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