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HYMENOPTEROUS
About HYMENOPTEROUS
HYMENOPTEROUS is a valid 13-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYMENOPTEROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYMENOPTEROUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEHMNOOPRSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.
Words that start HYMENOPTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYMENOPTEROUS?
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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