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NYMPHAEA
Definition of NYMPHAEA
noun
, the European white water lily.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖα (numphaîa), feminine singular form of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from translingual Nymphaea, from the same Latin and Greek.
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.
NYMPHAEA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
NYMPHAEA starts with N and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAEHMNPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start NYMPHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found NYMPHAEA?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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