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TOXALBUMIN
Definition of TOXALBUMIN
noun
A protein which is toxic (i.e. organic and poisonous)
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From toxin 'organic poison' (from Middle Latin toxicus 'poisonous', from Latin toxicum 'poison (for arrows)', from Ancient Greek (toxikon), from (toxa) 'arrows', from (toxon) 'bow') + albumin 'protein' (from French albumine, from Latin albumen 'egg white', from albus 'white'). The term was first used in about 1890 by the research chemists Ludwig Brieger (1849-1919) and Sigmund Fraenkel (1868-1939).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TOXALBUMIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 105, 2 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TOXALBUMIN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABILMNOTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found TOXALBUMIN?
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 105 - and most players walked straight past it.
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