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XENOLITHS

9 letters

Definition of XENOLITHS

noun

plural of xenolith

XENOLITH

noun

Any piece of rock having a different origin to that of the igneous rock in which it is found.

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Another sense

XENOLITHS carries a second meaning.

  1. noun

    Plural form of xenolith.

Word DNA

XENOLITHS inherits its ancestry from its root, XENOLITH.

How it is built

nouncompound-lithxeno-

Same root, XENOLITH · 1 relative in the game

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XENOLITHS in a sentence

“The deep interior of the North American craton is known only from so-called xenoliths - rock inclusions in igneous rock - or xenocrysts such as diamonds that have been delivered to the surface from deep below by volcanoes.”

EurekAlert! - Breaking News, 2010

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

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

XENOLITHS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 122 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 141
Its 23 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
32
First board
133
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 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

aki

on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

XENOLITHS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

XENOLITHS starts with X and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHILNOSTX - 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 XENOLITHS?

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