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SPERMATOZOID

/spɜː(ɹ)ˈmætəˌzəʊ.ɪd/12 letters

Definition of SPERMATOZOID

noun

A motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From spermatozoon + -id.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

SPERMATOZOID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
69
First board
51
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 51 days.

First ever to find it

inkandscribbles

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SPERMATOZOID
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
11
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

SPERMATOZOID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEIMOOPRSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start SPERMATO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPERMATOZOASPERMATOCYTESPERMATOZOALSPERMATOZOANSPERMATOZOONSPERMATOCYTESSPERMATOGENICSPERMATOGONIASPERMATOPHORESPERMATOPHYTESPERMATOZOANSSPERMATOZOIDS

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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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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