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MICROPHAGES
Definition of MICROPHAGES
noun
plural of microphage
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Another sense
MICROPHAGES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of microphage.
Word DNA
MICROPHAGES inherits its ancestry from its root, MICROPHAGE.
How it is built
Same root, MICROPHAGE · 1 relative in the game
MICROPHAGES in a sentence
“When you start to examine cells in different parts of the body such as cells of the immune system, t-cells, b-cells, microphages, on the walls of these cells of the immune system you find little receptor sites which respond to these molecules of emotion, so your immune system is listening on your body's functioning.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MICROPHAGES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 79 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MICROPHAGES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHIMOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MICROPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found MICROPHAGES?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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