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VARICOID

8 letters

Definition of VARICOID

adjective

Resembling a varix.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From varix + -oid.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-oid

Same root, VARIX · 2 relatives in the game

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.

VARICOID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 168
Its 5 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
65
First board
139
Latest board
57
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.

First ever to find it

heyitslix

on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

VARICOID
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

VARICOID starts with V and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDIIORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start VARICO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

VARICOSEVARICOSEDVARICOSESVARICOSISVARICOCELEVARICOSELYVARICOSITYVARICOTOMYVARICOCELESVARICOLOREDVARICOSITIES

Could you have found VARICOID?

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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.

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