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OPALINE

7 letters

Definition of OPALINE

adjective

Resembling opal in having a milky white iridescence.

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Other senses

OPALINE carries 4 further meanings.

  1. Pertaining to or like opal; also, like some property of the opal; specifically, having an iridescence like that of the opal; bluish-white, reflecting prismatic hues, as the wings of certain insects.

  2. noun

    A semi-translucent glass, whitened by the addition of phosphate of lime, peroxid of tin, or other ingredients.

  3. noun

    An opalina.

  4. adjective

    Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.

Where it comes from

From opal + -ine.

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Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-ine

Same root, OPAL · 10 relatives in the game

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OPALINE in a sentence

“His eyes were opaline, and he was built like a reed.”

Automatic Typewriter, 2011

Rarity score
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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.

OPALINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 53 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
53
Boards found on
29
First board
155
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

kmg1493

on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

OPALINE
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

OPALINE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEILNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start OPALIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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