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ALLERGIST

9 letters

Definition of ALLERGIST

noun

A doctor who specializes in the treatment of allergies.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From allergy + -ist.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ist

Same root, ALLERGY · 3 relatives in the game

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.

ALLERGIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
145
First board
26
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.

First ever to find it

ccristee

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

Built from these letters

ALLERGIST
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ALLERGIST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGILLRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.

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 ALLERG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ALLERGYALLERGENALLERGICALLERGINALLERGENSALLERGICSALLERGIESALLERGINSALLERGENICALLERGISTSALLERGENICITYALLERGENICITIES

Could you have found ALLERGIST?

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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