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OOSPHERES

9 letters

Definition of OOSPHERES

noun

plural of oosphere

OOSPHERE

noun

A large nonmotile egg cell, especially of an alga or fungus, formed in an oogonium and ready for fertilization.

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Word DNA

OOSPHERES inherits its ancestry from its root, OOSPHERE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

7%

of traced words share this origin (1,806)

Romance

branch · 15.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-sphereoo-

Same root, OOSPHERE · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Latin.

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Rarity score
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

OOSPHERES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 130
Its one board, across 130 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 118, 15 September 2026.

Built from these letters

OOSPHERES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

OOSPHERES starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEHOOPRSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, S and E appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start OOSPHE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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