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ECTOMORPH

/ˈɛktəʊmɔːf/9 letters

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).

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.

ECTOMORPH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 96
Its 20 boards, across 96 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
20
Boards found on
32
First board
96
Latest board
9
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ECTOMORPH
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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.

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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