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ASTEROIDEAN
Definition of ASTEROIDEAN
noun
Any starfish of the class Asteroidea
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From taxonomic name Asteroidea + -an.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASTEROIDEAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASTEROIDEAN starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AADEEINORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.
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 ASTEROI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASTEROIDEAN?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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