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RHONCHUS
Definition of RHONCHUS
noun
A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.
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.
RHONCHUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RHONCHUS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CHHNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H appears more than once.
Words that start RHONCH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RHONCHUS?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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