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BIOLOGY

/baɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/7 letters

Definition of BIOLOGY

noun

The study of all life or living matter.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”). By surface analysis, bio- + -logy. In English, first attested in the modern meaning in the work of English physician Thomas Beddoes in 1799. The term is also recorded in the sense of a biographical history in the work of Dudley Loftus in 1686, but this is considered by the Oxford English Dictionary to be an isolated use. The modern Greek βιολογία (viología) is borrowed from the English term and French biologie via international scientific vocabulary. Piecewise doublet of zoology.

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BIOLOGY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 210 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 24 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
6
First board
100
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.

Built from these letters

BIOLOGY
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

BIOLOGY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BGILOOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start BIOLOG

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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