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AUTOLYSED

9 letters

Definition of AUTOLYSED

verb

simple past and past participle of autolyse

AUTOLYZE · via autolyse

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.

AUTOLYSED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 146
Its 23 boards, across 146 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
23
Boards found on
72
First board
136
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

yyzed

on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AUTOLYSED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AUTOLYSED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADELOSTUY - 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 AUTOLYSED?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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