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ZONULE
Definition of ZONULE
noun
A little zone, or girdle; a zonula.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin zōnula (“small belt or girdle”). By surface analysis, zone + -ule. Doublet of zonula.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ZONULE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 84 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZONULE starts with Z and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ELNOUZ - 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.
Words that start ZONULE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found ZONULE?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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