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NIACINS
Definition of NIACINS
Wiktionary has no entry for NIACINS itself. This is its base word, NIACIN.
noun
A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for NIACIN.
in 1942 derived from nicotinic + acid + vitamin, chosen to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NIACIN · 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.
NIACINS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NIACINS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACIINNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and I appear more than once.
Words that start NIACIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NIACINS?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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