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TAENIACIDE
Definition of TAENIACIDE
noun
Any substance that kills tapeworms
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From taenia + -cide.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TAENIACIDE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TAENIACIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TAENIACIDE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACDEEIINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, E and I appear more than once.
Words that start TAENIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TAENIACIDE?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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