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ECTOMORPH
Definition of ECTOMORPH
noun
Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to ecto- + -morph.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ECTOMORPH · 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.
ECTOMORPH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 66 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ECTOMORPH starts with E and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read CEHMOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start ECTOMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found ECTOMORPH?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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