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ZIRAM
Definition of ZIRAM
noun
A zinc salt C6H12N2S4Zn used as a fungicide.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From zinc dithiocarbamate.
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.
ZIRAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 68, 27 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 84 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 68, 27 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZIRAM starts with Z and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AIMRZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ZIRAM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ZIRAM?
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 68 - and most players walked straight past it.
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