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ORNITHIC

/ɔː(ɹ)ˈnɪθɪk/8 letters

Definition of ORNITHIC

adjective

Of or pertaining to birds.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From ornitho- + -ic.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound-ic

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Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ORNITHIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 157
Its 18 boards, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
72
First board
155
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

mountaingirl

on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ORNITHIC
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ORNITHIC starts with O and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CHIINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start ORNITH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ORNITHESORNITHINEORNITHOIDORNITHINESORNITHOPODORNITHOSESORNITHOSISORNITHOLOGYORNITHOPODSORNITHOPTERORNITHOSAURORNITHOGALUM

Could you have found ORNITHIC?

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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