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PLOIDIES

8 letters

Definition of PLOIDIES

noun

plural of ploidy

PLOIDY

noun

The number of homologous sets of chromosomes in a cell.

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Word DNA

PLOIDIES inherits its ancestry from its root, PLOIDY.

How it is built

noun

Same root, PLOIDY · 1 relative in the game

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.

PLOIDIES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its 12 boards, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
53
First board
165
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 53, 12 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

enigma

on Day 53, 12 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PLOIDIES
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Could you have found PLOIDIES?

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 53 - and most players walked straight past it.

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