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XENOLITH
Definition of XENOLITH
noun
Any piece of rock having a different origin to that of the igneous rock in which it is found.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
XENOLITH carries 3 further meanings.
noun
A rock fragment foreign to the igneous mass in which it occurs.
noun
In petrography, a term proposed by Sollas (1894) for a rock inclosed in an intrusive rock, and not derived from the igneous magma.
noun
(geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded
Where it comes from
From xeno- + -lith.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, XENOLITH · 1 relative in the game
XENOLITH in a sentence
“Usurped the subtlety, the vulnerability of the egg and ham wedding, the pepper xenolith stood firm, yelled to the other flavors and claimed victory, zero-sum taste diplomacy.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
XENOLITH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 182 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
XENOLITH starts with X and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read EHILNOTX - 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 start XENOLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found XENOLITH?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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