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PALEOBOTANIES

13 letters

Definition of PALEOBOTANIES

noun

plural of paleobotany

PALEOBOTANY

noun

The branch of paleontology that deals with the study of plant fossils.

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Word DNA

PALEOBOTANIES inherits its ancestry from its root, PALEOBOTANY.

How it is built

nouncompoundpaleo-

Same root, PALEOBOTANY · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PALEOBOTANIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 2 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
83
First board
109
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 50 days.

First ever to find it

hokutofuji

on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PALEOBOTANIES
13
Letters
7
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PALEOBOTANIES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABEEILNOOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, E and O appear more than once.

Words that start PALEOBOTA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PALEOBOTANYPALEOBOTANICPALEOBOTANISTPALEOBOTANICALPALEOBOTANISTS

Could you have found PALEOBOTANIES?

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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.

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