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SCYPHISTOMAE
Definition of SCYPHISTOMAE
noun
plural of scyphistoma
noun
An individual cell in a stage of the life cycle of a true jellyfish (class Scyphozoa), a colony of such cells, when it resembles a polyp and breeds asexually by strobilation.
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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.
SCYPHISTOMAE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCYPHISTOMAE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIMOPSSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start SCYPHIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SCYPHISTOMAE?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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