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POLYGENISM
Definition of POLYGENISM
noun
The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From poly- + genism?
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.
POLYGENISM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First found by a player on Day 69, 28 July 2026.
Built from these letters
POLYGENISM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EGILMNOPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start POLYGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found POLYGENISM?
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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.
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