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CTENOPHORE
Definition of CTENOPHORE
noun
Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from translingual Ctenophora; equivalent to cteno- + -phore.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CTENOPHORE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CTENOPHORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 49, 8 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 49, 8 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CTENOPHORE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEHNOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.
Words that start CTENOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 49
Could you have found CTENOPHORE?
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 49 - and most players walked straight past it.
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