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SARCOPHILE
Definition of SARCOPHILE
noun
A carnivorous marsupial, especially of genus Sarcophilus
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sarco- + -phile.
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.
SARCOPHILE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SARCOPHILE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHILOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SARCOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SARCOPHILE?
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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.
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