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SPONGOID
Definition of SPONGOID
adjective
Resembling sponge.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sponge + -oid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SPONGOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 28 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPONGOID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DGINOOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SPONGO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SPONGOID?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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