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PHAGOCYTISED

12 letters

Definition of PHAGOCYTISED

verb

simple past and past participle of phagocytise

PHAGOCYTISE

verb

To ingest (something) by phagocytosis.

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Word DNA

PHAGOCYTISED inherits its ancestry from its root, PHAGOCYTE.

Line of descent

  1. German
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

German

Deepest traced root

8th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

3.3%

of traced words share this origin (2,624)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

verbcompound-cytephago-

Same root, PHAGOCYTE · 5 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PHAGOCYTISED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 159
Its 3 boards, across 159 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
143
First board
150
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 143, 10 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

karoil

on Day 143, 10 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PHAGOCYTISED
12
Letters
4
Vowels
8
Consonants
12
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PHAGOCYTISED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDEGHIOPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PHAGOCYT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PHAGOCYTEPHAGOCYTESPHAGOCYTICPHAGOCYTISEPHAGOCYTISMPHAGOCYTIZEPHAGOCYTOSEPHAGOCYTIZEDPHAGOCYTIZESPHAGOCYTOSEDPHAGOCYTOSESPHAGOCYTOSIS

Could you have found PHAGOCYTISED?

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 143 - and most players walked straight past it.

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