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VISCOID
Definition of VISCOID
adjective
Composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, visco- + -oid; evidently independently coined several times by several scientists in the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries.
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.
VISCOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VISCOID starts with V and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDIIOSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start VISCOI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found VISCOID?
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 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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