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SODALITE

/ˈsoʊ.dəˌlaɪt/8 letters

Definition of SODALITE

noun

A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica, of the chemical composition of sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, Na4Al3Si3O12Cl. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.

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Other senses

SODALITE carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    A blue-white mineral, Na4Al3Si3O12Cl, found in silica-poor igneous rocks.

  2. noun

    A mineral so called from the large portion of soda which enters into its composition.

  3. noun

    A mineral of a white to blue or gray color, occuring commonly in dodecahedrons, also massive. It is a silicate of alumina and soda with some chlorine.

  4. noun

    a vitreous mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate and sodium chloride in crystalline form; occurs in igneous rocks

Where it comes from

Named for the alkaline silicate composition.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllables

Same root, SODALITE · 1 relative in the game

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SODALITE in a sentence

“My fabrick matchtid teh sodalite n teh snowflaky obsidian.”

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SODALITE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 76 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 144
Its 44 boards, across 144 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
44
Boards found on
23
First board
142
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

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on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SODALITE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SODALI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SODALISTSODALITYSODALISTSSODALITESSODALITIES

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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