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VULCANS
About VULCANS
VULCANS is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VULCANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VULCANS starts with V and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACLNSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start VULCAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found VULCANS?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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