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XANTHONES
Definition of XANTHONES
noun
plural of xanthone
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, XANTHONE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
XANTHONES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
Built from these letters
XANTHONES starts with X and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHNNOSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start XANTHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found XANTHONES?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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