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HYPOID
Definition of HYPOID
adjective
Describing gear wheels whose axes are offset from each other.
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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.
HYPOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HYPOID starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DHIOPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HYPOID
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found HYPOID?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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