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PHOCINES
Definition of PHOCINES
noun
plural of phocine
adjective
Pertaining to true seals (also known as earless seals, as opposed to eared seals such as sea lions); seallike.
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Word DNA
PHOCINES inherits its ancestry from its root, PHOCINE.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,357)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHOCINE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHOCINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHOCINES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEHINOPS - 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.
Could you have found PHOCINES?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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