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HYDROMEDUSAE

12 letters

Definition of HYDROMEDUSAE

noun

plural of hydromedusa

HYDROMEDUSA

noun

The South American snake-necked turtle (Hydromedusa tectifera).

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

HYDROMEDUSAE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 157
Its one board, across 157 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
152
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

celtsarehere

on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HYDROMEDUSAE
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
10
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

HYDROMEDUSAE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEHMORSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.

Words that start HYDROMED

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found HYDROMEDUSAE?

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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