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SARCOPHAGY
Definition of SARCOPHAGY
noun
The practice of eating flesh.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sarco- + -phagy.
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.
SARCOPHAGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SARCOPHAGY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACGHOPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SARCOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SARCOPHAGY?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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