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ZORINOS

7 letters

Definition of ZORINOS

Wiktionary has no entry for ZORINOS itself. This is its base word, ZORINO.

noun

skunk fur used to make clothing

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

The origin recorded for ZORINO.

From Spanish zorrillo (“skunk”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Spanish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Spanish

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.2%

of traced words share this origin (927)

Romance

branch · 12.9% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ZORINO · 1 relative in the game

Every Spanish word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ZORINOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its one board, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
13
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

bingeworthy

on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ZORINOS
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ZORINOS starts with Z and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read INOORSZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ZORINO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ZORINOS?

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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.

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