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URUSHIOLS

9 letters

Definition of URUSHIOLS

noun

plural of urushiol

URUSHIOL

noun

An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.

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Word DNA

URUSHIOLS inherits its ancestry from its root, URUSHIOL.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (327)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ol

Same root, URUSHIOL · 1 relative in the game

Every Japanese word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

URUSHIOLS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
153
First board
22
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.

First ever to find it

7moredonuts

on Day 153, 20 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

URUSHIOLS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

URUSHIOLS starts with U and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HILORSSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and S appear more than once.

Words that start URUSHI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found URUSHIOLS?

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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.

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