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OXYCEPHALIES
Definition of OXYCEPHALIES
noun
plural of oxycephaly
OXYCEPHALY
noun
A kind of cephalic disorder: sometimes the premature closure of the coronal suture plus any other suture, such as the lambdoid; sometimes the premature fusing of all sutures.
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Word DNA
OXYCEPHALIES inherits its ancestry from its root, OXYCEPHALY.
How it is built
Same root, OXYCEPHALY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OXYCEPHALIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 174, 10 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OXYCEPHALIES starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEHILOPSXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start OXYCEPHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OXYCEPHALIES?
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 174 - and most players walked straight past it.
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