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CHRYSALIS
Definition of CHRYSALIS
noun
A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings.
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.
CHRYSALIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
CHRYSALIS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHILRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start CHRYSA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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