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POLYGENIST
Definition of POLYGENIST
noun
One who maintains that animals of the same species are descended from more than one original pair.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From polygeny + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POLYGENIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 88, 16 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POLYGENIST starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGILNOPSTY - 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 POLYGENIST?
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 88 - and most players walked straight past it.
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