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WULFENITE

9 letters

Definition of WULFENITE

noun

An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO4, found in lead veins.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Wulfen + -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz X. von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

WULFENITE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 12 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
35
First board
102
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.

Built from these letters

WULFENITE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

WULFENITE starts with W and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEFILNTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start WULFEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found WULFENITE?

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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