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PHLEGMONOID
Definition of PHLEGMONOID
adjective
Resembling a phlegmon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From phlegmon + -oid.
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.
PHLEGMONOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 142, 9 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHLEGMONOID starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEGHILMNOOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start PHLEGMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHLEGMONOID?
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 142 - and most players walked straight past it.
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