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GRAPHOID
Definition of GRAPHOID
noun
A matroid that has two collections of nonempty subsets called circuits and cocircuits such that the intersection of any circuit and cocircuit is not only the identity matroid, no circuit properly contains another circuit, no cocircuit properly contains another cocircuit, and for any painting of M that colors exactly one element green and the rest either red or blue there exists either a circuit containing the green element and no red elements or a cocircuit containing the green element and no blue elements.
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Where it comes from
From graph + -oid. 1985, United States.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRAPHOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRAPHOID starts with G and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADGHIOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GRAPHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GRAPHOID?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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