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HYGIENIST
Definition of HYGIENIST
noun
A person skilled in hygienics, but especially a dental assistant who cleans teeth etc
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hygiene + -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.
HYGIENIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYGIENIST starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGHIINSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start HYGIEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYGIENIST?
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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.
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