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NUCLIDES

8 letters

Definition of NUCLIDES

noun

plural of nuclide

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

NUCLIDES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 108
Its 2 boards, across 108 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
77
First board
106
Latest board
29
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

lightningbison

on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start NUCLID

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

NUCLIDENUCLIDIC

Could you have found NUCLIDES?

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 77 - and most players walked straight past it.

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