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EXOGENOUS
Definition of EXOGENOUS
adjective
Having an external cause. Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From exo- + -genous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EXOGENOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 164 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EXOGENOUS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGNOOSUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXOGEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found EXOGENOUS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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