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CHORDATES
Definition of CHORDATES
noun
plural of chordate
noun
A member of the phylum Chordata; numerous animals having a notochord at some stage of their development; in vertebrates this develops into the spine.
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Another sense
CHORDATES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of chordate.
Word DNA
CHORDATES inherits its ancestry from its root, CHORDATE.
How it is built
Same root, CHORDATE · 1 relative in the game
CHORDATES in a sentence
“But from the article, all that we know is that RAs have been found in chordates and in sea urchins — both multicellular organisms.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHORDATES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHORDATES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHORDA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found CHORDATES?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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