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ENDOGAMY
Definition of ENDOGAMY
noun
The practice of marrying or requiring to marry within one's own ethnic, religious, or social group.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
ENDOGAMY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The custom of marrying within a particular social or cultural group in accordance with custom or law.
noun
Reproduction by the fusion of gametes of similar ancestry, as in self-pollination or inbreeding.
noun
Marriage within the tribe: a custom among some savage peoples: opposed to exogamy.
noun
In botany, the fusion or coalescence of two or more female gametes.
Where it comes from
From endo- + -gamy; compare inmarriage.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ENDOGAMY · 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.
ENDOGAMY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENDOGAMY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ADEGMNOY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ENDOGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found ENDOGAMY?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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