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PORIFERANS
Definition of PORIFERANS
noun
plural of poriferan
PORIFERAN
noun
Any sponge of the phylum Porifera.
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Word DNA
PORIFERANS inherits its ancestry from its root, PORIFERAN.
How it is built
Same root, PORIFERAN · 1 relative 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.
PORIFERANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PORIFERANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEFINOPRRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start PORIFE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PORIFERANS?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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