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PTERIDOPHYTES
Definition of PTERIDOPHYTES
noun
plural of pteridophyte
noun
Any plant of the division Pteridophyta, of simple vascular plants that reproduce via spores rather than seeds and that alternate generations of diploid (sporophyte) and haploid (gametophyte or prothallus) forms, the diploid generally being larger and more conspicuous.
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Word DNA
PTERIDOPHYTES inherits its ancestry from its root, PTERIDOPHYTE.
How it is built
Same root, PTERIDOPHYTE · 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.
PTERIDOPHYTES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PTERIDOPHYTES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEEHIOPPRSTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P, T and E appear more than once.
Words that start PTERIDOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PTERIDOPHYTES?
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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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