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PHASMIDS

8 letters

Definition of PHASMIDS

noun

plural of phasmid

PHASMID

noun

Any insect of the order Phasmida: a leaf insect or walking stick (stick insect).

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Word DNA

PHASMIDS inherits its ancestry from its root, PHASMID.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. Latin
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.4%

of traced words share this origin (10,280)

Hellenic

branch · 12.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-id

Same root, PHASMID · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

PHASMIDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
5
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

pholisma

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PHASMIDS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PHASMIDS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADHIMPSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.

Words that start PHASMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PHASMIDS?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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