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SINOLOGUES

10 letters

Definition of SINOLOGUES

noun

plural of sinologue

SINOLOGUE

noun

A student or expert of Chinese studies.

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Word DNA

SINOLOGUES inherits its ancestry from its root, SINOLOGUE.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,301)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-loguesino-

Same root, SINOLOGUE · 1 relative in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SINOLOGUES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 165
Its one board, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

gnawinglyPATRON

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SINOLOGUES
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SINOLOGUES starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGILNOOSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and O appear more than once.

Words that start SINOLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SINOLOGYSINOLOGUESINOLOGIESSINOLOGISTSINOLOGICALSINOLOGISTS

Could you have found SINOLOGUES?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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