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HYDROLOGIST
Definition of HYDROLOGIST
noun
Someone who is skilled in or practises hydrology.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hydrology + -ist.
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.
HYDROLOGIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 26
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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