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ACAROLOGIST
Definition of ACAROLOGIST
noun
A specialist in acarology - the study of ticks and mites.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From acaro- + -logist.
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.
ACAROLOGIST in OUTLIER
It has fitted 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACAROLOGIST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACGILOORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and O appear more than once.
Words that start ACAROLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACAROLOGIST?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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