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HYPEROSTOSIS
Definition of HYPEROSTOSIS
noun
An excessive growth or thickening of bone.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hyper- + ostosis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HYPEROSTOSIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HYPEROSTOSIS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHIOOPRSSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and S appear more than once.
Words that start HYPEROST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HYPEROSTOSIS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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