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NANODOTS

8 letters

Definition of NANODOTS

noun

plural of nanodot

NANODOT

noun

A nanoscale dot

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Word DNA

NANODOTS inherits its ancestry from its root, NANODOT.

How it is built

nouncompoundnano-

Same root, NANODOT · 1 relative in the game

NANODOT

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

NANODOTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

taohuayuan

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NANODOTS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NANODOTS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADNNOOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once.

Words that start NANODO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NANODOT

Could you have found NANODOTS?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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