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ONYCHIAS
Definition of ONYCHIAS
noun
plural of onychia
noun
An infection of the nailbed, which more or less always also involves the nail itself (sometimes causing the nail to slough off).
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Word DNA
ONYCHIAS inherits its ancestry from its root, ONYCHIA.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,711)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ONYCHIA · 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.
ONYCHIAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 104, 1 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
ONYCHIAS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHINOSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ONYCHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ONYCHIAS?
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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