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NITROS

6 letters

Definition of NITROS

noun

plural of nitro

NITRO

noun

The univalent NO2 functional group.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, NITRO · 1 relative in the game

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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.

NITROS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far.

Day 1Day 155
Its 12 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
52
First board
152
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

kapt_brandewyn

on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NITROS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NITROS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read INORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start NITROS

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NITROSONITROSYLNITROSYLSNITROSAMINENITROSATIONNITROSAMINES

Could you have found NITROS?

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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.

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