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XIPHOIDAL

9 letters

Definition of XIPHOIDAL

adjective

xiphoid; sword-shaped

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

XIPHOIDAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 102
Its 2 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
91
First board
102
Latest board
11
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

braptastic

on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

XIPHOIDAL
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

XIPHOIDAL starts with X and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADHIILOPX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start XIPHOI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found XIPHOIDAL?

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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.

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