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PHYLOGENY
Definition of PHYLOGENY
noun
The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”), equivalent to phylo- + -geny.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- German
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,375)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHYLOGENY · 5 relatives 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.
PHYLOGENY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 161, 28 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PHYLOGENY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGHLNOPYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y appears more than once.
Words that start PHYLOG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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