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SULPHIDES

9 letters

Definition of SULPHIDES

noun

plural of sulphide

SULFIDE · via sulphide

noun

Any compound of sulfur and a metal or other electropositive element or group.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, SULPHID · 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.

SULPHIDES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 149
Its one board, across 149 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
76
First board
73
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 73 days.

First ever to find it

mattstan

on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SULPHIDES
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SULPHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SULPHIDES?

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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.

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