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PHYTOCIDE
Definition of PHYTOCIDE
noun
An agent that kills plants, such as weedkiller.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From phyto- + -cide.
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.
PHYTOCIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHYTOCIDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEHIOPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PHYTOC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHYTOCIDE?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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