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LEPTOPHOS
Definition of LEPTOPHOS
noun
An organophosphate formerly used as a pesticide and fungicide.
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Where it comes from
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps lepto- and phosphate?”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEPTOPHOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
Built from these letters
LEPTOPHOS starts with L and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHLOOPPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and O appear more than once.
Words that start LEPTOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LEPTOPHOS?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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