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URANIC
Definition of URANIC
adjective
Containing uranium in higher valences than uranous compounds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
URANIC carries 4 further meanings.
Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
Pertaining to, obtained from, or containing uranium: noting salts of which the base is uranium sesquioxid, or in which uranium oxid acts as an acid.
In anthropology, relating to the palate.
adjective
Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
Where it comes from
From uran- + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
URANIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
URANIC starts with U and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACINRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found URANIC?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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