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AUTOECISM
Definition of AUTOECISM
noun
The fact of a parasite or dependent organism completing an entire life cycle on a single host species.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Derived from autoecious.
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.
AUTOECISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOECISM starts with A and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACEIMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start AUTOEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTOECISM?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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