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HETEROGONY

10 letters

Definition of HETEROGONY

noun

The condition of having two or more kinds of flower, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils

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Where it comes from

From hetero- + -gony.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-gonyhetero-

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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.

HETEROGONY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 12 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
82
First board
147
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 82, 10 August 2026.

Built from these letters

HETEROGONY
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HETEROGONY starts with H and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EEGHNOORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.

Words that start HETERO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HETEROGONY?

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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.

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