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NOXIOUS
Definition of NOXIOUS
adjective
Harmful; injurious.
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Where it comes from
From Latin noxius (“hurtful, injurious”), from noxa (“hurt, injury”), from nocere (“to hurt, injure”); see nocent.
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.
NOXIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 264 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NOXIOUS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read INOOSUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start NOXIOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOXIOUS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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