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SERICONS

8 letters

Definition of SERICONS

Wiktionary has no entry for SERICONS itself. This is its base word, SERICON.

noun

A red tincture in alchemy.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, SERICON · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SERICONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 160
Its one board, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
20
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.

First ever to find it

bealeiderman

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

SERICONS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEINORSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

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 SERICO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SERICONS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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