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URETIC
Definition of URETIC
adjective
Synonym of urinary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, uresis + -etic (compare (parallel) with genesis → genetic)
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.
URETIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
URETIC starts with U and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEIRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found URETIC?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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