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PARAMASTOID
Definition of PARAMASTOID
adjective
Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From para- + mastoid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
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.
PARAMASTOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARAMASTOID starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AAADIMOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found PARAMASTOID?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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