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ACROMEGALIES

12 letters

Definition of ACROMEGALIES

noun

plural of acromegaly

ACROMEGALY

noun

A chronic disease marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by over-activity of the pituitary gland.

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Word DNA

ACROMEGALIES inherits its ancestry from its root, ACROMEGALY.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. French
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.2%

of traced words share this origin (9,517)

Hellenic

branch · 12.2% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-megalyacro-

Same root, ACROMEGALY · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

ACROMEGALIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far.

Day 1Day 158
Its 6 boards, across 158 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
93
First board
141
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 141, 8 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First ever to find it

ambitious_goo

on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ACROMEGALIES
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

ACROMEGALIES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEEGILMORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.

Words that start ACROMEGA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ACROMEGALYACROMEGALICACROMEGALICS

Could you have found ACROMEGALIES?

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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.

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