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STERILIZED

10 letters

About STERILIZED

STERILIZED is a valid 10-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.

No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.

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.

STERILIZED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 97
Its 2 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
68
First board
69
Latest board
1
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.

First found by a player on Day 68, 27 July 2026.

Built from these letters

STERILIZED
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

STERILIZED starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEIILRSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start STERIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

STERILESTERILANTSTERILELYSTERILISESTERILITYSTERILIZESTERILANTSSTERILISEDSTERILISERSTERILISESSTERILIZERSTERILIZES

Could you have found STERILIZED?

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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.

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