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WELWITSCHIA
Definition of WELWITSCHIA
noun
Any member of the species Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.
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.
WELWITSCHIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
WELWITSCHIA starts with W and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIILSTWW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. W and I appear more than once.
Could you have found WELWITSCHIA?
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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.
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