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LAMPREYS
Definition of LAMPREYS
noun
plural of lamprey
noun
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
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Word DNA
LAMPREYS inherits its ancestry from its root, LAMPREY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, LAMPREY · 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.
LAMPREYS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 89 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
LAMPREYS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AELMPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found LAMPREYS?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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