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PTERYLOSIS
Definition of PTERYLOSIS
noun
The particular arrangement of feathers on a bird.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pteryla (“feather-growing surface of skin”) + -osis (describing a formation or phenomenon).
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.
PTERYLOSIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 172, 8 November 2026.
Built from these letters
PTERYLOSIS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILOPRSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start PTERYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PTERYLOSIS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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