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ORCHIDS
Definition of ORCHIDS
noun
plural of orchid
noun
A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.
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Word DNA
ORCHIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, ORCHID.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,181)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ORCHID · 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.
ORCHIDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ORCHIDS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDHIORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ORCHID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ORCHIDS?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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