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CYPRINID
Definition of CYPRINID
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or being the Cyprinidae family of fish that includes barbs, carps, and minnows.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, an appellativization from Cyprinid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin cyprin(us) (“type of carp”) + -id.
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.
CYPRINID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 54, 13 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CYPRINID starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDIINPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start CYPRIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 54
Could you have found CYPRINID?
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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.
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