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ONYCHA
Definition of ONYCHA
noun
the operculum of kinds of strombus or muricid, smoked as an ingredient in the Mosaic incense and pre-modern medicine
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin onycha.
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.
ONYCHA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ONYCHA starts with O and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACHNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ONYCHA?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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