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CLADIST
Definition of CLADIST
noun
A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
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Where it comes from
From clade + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLADIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 84 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CLADIST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACDILST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLADIS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found CLADIST?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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