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CLADOGENESIS
Definition of CLADOGENESIS
noun
An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From clado- + -genesis.
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.
CLADOGENESIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLADOGENESIS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEGILNOSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once.
Words that start CLADOGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLADOGENESIS?
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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