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CTENOPHORES

11 letters

Definition of CTENOPHORES

noun

plural of ctenophore

CTENOPHORE

noun

Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.

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Word DNA

CTENOPHORES inherits its ancestry from its root, CTENOPHORE.

How it is built

nouncompound-phorecteno-

Same root, CTENOPHORE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CTENOPHORES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 147
Its 26 boards, across 147 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
26
Boards found on
42
First board
147
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

beroe

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CTENOPHORES
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CTENOPHORES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEHNOOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.

Words that start CTENOPH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

CTENOPHORECTENOPHORALCTENOPHORANCTENOPHORANS

Could you have found CTENOPHORES?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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