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TORICS
Definition of TORICS
Wiktionary has no entry for TORICS itself. This is its base word, TORIC.
adjective
Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal. Which, in any of several technical senses, admits a high degree of symmetry, allowing combinatorial methods to be used in its study. Containing an algebraic torus as a dense subset, such that the group action of the torus on itself extends to the whole space; or, the embedding map taking the torus into the space. See Toric variety on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Narrowly) A compact smooth toric variety. (Broadly) Quasitoric: a closed, real, even-dimensional smooth manifold equipped with an effective, smooth action by an algebraic torus whose orbits are simple complex polytopes and such that the action is locally the same as a faithful real representation of the group. Any of several generalizations of the notion of toric varieties to stacks: the stack quotient of a toric variety by its torus; the stack quotient of a toric variety by a subgroup of its torus. Generated by differences of monomials. A particular topological quantum error correcting code; see Toric code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for TORIC.
From torus + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, TORU · 3 relatives 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.
TORICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TORICS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CIORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 53
Could you have found TORICS?
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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.
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