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DOGMATICS

/dɒɡˈmætɪks/9 letters

Definition of DOGMATICS

noun

The systematic study of dogmata.

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Other senses

DOGMATICS carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    The study of religious dogmas, especially those of a Christian church.

  2. noun

    The science which treats of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church; doctrinal theology. Also dogmatic.

  3. noun

    The science which treats of Christian doctrinal theology.

  4. noun

    The systematic study of church dogma.

Where it comes from

From dogmata + -ics.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound-ics

Same root, DOGMATIC · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

DOGMATICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 38 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
25
First board
150
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

breadnaught

on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

DOGMATICS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DOGMATICS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDGIMOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of DOGMATICS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

APOLOGETICSBUDDHOLOGYCANONICSMARIOLATRYMARIOLOGY

Words that start DOGMAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DOGMATICS?

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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