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XANTHOUS
Definition of XANTHOUS
adjective
Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
XANTHOUS carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Yellow.
Yellow: in anthropology and ethnography specifying the yellow or Mongolioid type of mankind.
adjective
Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
adjective
Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, xanth- + -ous.
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.
XANTHOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 112 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
XANTHOUS starts with X and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHNOSTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of XANTHOUS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start XANTHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found XANTHOUS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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