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SPHENOIDAL
About SPHENOIDAL
SPHENOIDAL is a valid 10-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPHENOIDAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPHENOIDAL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEHILNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SPHENO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found SPHENOIDAL?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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