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LATHYRISMS
Definition of LATHYRISMS
Wiktionary has no entry for LATHYRISMS itself. This is its base word, LATHYRISM.
noun
A neurological disease of humans and domestic animals, caused by eating certain legumes of the genus Lathyrus and characterised by paralysis and emaciation.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for LATHYRISM.
Lathyrus + -ism
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, LATHYRISM · 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.
LATHYRISMS 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 15 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
LATHYRISMS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHILMRSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start LATHYR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LATHYRISMS?
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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