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MYCOID
Definition of MYCOID
adjective
Characteristic of fungi
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MYCOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MYCOID starts with M and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read CDIMOY - 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 MYCOID?
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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.
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