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AUTOLYSE

8 letters

Definition of AUTOLYSE

verb

Alternative spelling of autolyze.

AUTOLYZE

verb

To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, AUTOLYSE · 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.

AUTOLYSE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 39 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
39
Boards found on
37
First board
150
Latest board
20
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.

Built from these letters

AUTOLYSE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start AUTOLY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AUTOLYSE?

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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.

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