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APOTHEMS

8 letters

Definition of APOTHEMS

noun

plural of apothem

APOTHEM

noun

The perpendicular distance from the center of a circle to a chord of the same circle.

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Word DNA

APOTHEMS inherits its ancestry from its root, APOTHEM.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.6%

of traced words share this origin (3,706)

Hellenic

branch · 12.6% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, APOTHEM · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek 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.

APOTHEMS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 150
Its 5 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
69
First board
147
Latest board
44
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

nadig

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

APOTHEMS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

APOTHEMS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHMOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start APOTHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found APOTHEMS?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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