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XENOTROPIC
Definition of XENOTROPIC
adjective
Describing a virus growing in tissue of an organism other than its normal host.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From xeno- + -tropic.
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.
XENOTROPIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
XENOTROPIC starts with X and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEINOOPRTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found XENOTROPIC?
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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.
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