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ECHINOID
Definition of ECHINOID
noun
Any sea urchin or sea dollar of the class Echinoidea.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From echino- + -oid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ECHINOID · 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.
ECHINOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ECHINOID starts with E and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDEHIINO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start ECHINO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found ECHINOID?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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