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IGUANODON
Definition of IGUANODON
noun
Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Iguanodon, from Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.6%
of traced words share this origin (421)
branch · 15.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, IGUANODON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
IGUANODON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
IGUANODON starts with I and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADGINNOOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once.
Could you have found IGUANODON?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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