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PHASMID
Definition of PHASMID
noun
Any insect of the order Phasmida: a leaf insect or walking stick (stick insect).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PHASMID carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Any of numerous chiefly tropical, often wingless insects of the order Phasmida (or Phasmatodea), having elongated bodies that resembles twigs or leaves, and including the walking sticks and the leaf insects.
noun
A member of the orthopterous family Phasmidæ.
Having the characters of or belonging to the family Phasmidæ.
noun
Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.
Where it comes from
From Latin phasma (“apparition, specter, phantom”) + -id (nominal suffix), from Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma, “apparition, phantom”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,770)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
PHASMID in a sentence
“Specimens of Lord Howe Island phasmid Dryococoelus australis (Ex), a large flightless phasmatid thought to be extinct on Lord Howe Island, is known to occur still on Ball's Pyramid.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHASMID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 79 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHASMID starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADHIMPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PHASMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found PHASMID?
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