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HYDROLOGIST

/haɪˈdɹɒl.ə.dʒɪst/11 letters

Definition of HYDROLOGIST

noun

Someone who is skilled in or practises hydrology.

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Other senses

HYDROLOGIST carries 4 further meanings.

  1. noun

    One skilled in hydrology.

  2. noun

    One skilled in hydrology.

  3. noun

    someone who is skilled in, professes, or practices hydrology.

  4. noun

    a geologist skilled in hydrology

Where it comes from

From hydrology + -ist.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun4 syllablescompound-ist

Same root, HYDROLOGIST · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

HYDROLOGIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 35 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
26
First board
162
Latest board
14
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

HYDROLOGIST
11
Letters
3
Vowels
8
Consonants
10
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HYDROLOGIST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DGHILOORSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start HYDROLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HYDROLOGIST?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The Century Dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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