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SPOROCYTES

10 letters

Definition of SPOROCYTES

noun

plural of sporocyte

SPOROCYTE

noun

A cell that produces haploid spores during meiosis

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Word DNA

SPOROCYTES inherits its ancestry from its root, SPOROCYTE.

How it is built

nouncompound-cytesporo-

Same root, SPOROCYTE · 1 relative in the game

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

SPOROCYTES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 177
Its one board, across 177 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
162
First board
15
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 162, 29 October 2026.

Built from these letters

SPOROCYTES
10
Letters
3
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SPOROC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SPOROCARPSPOROCYSTSPOROCYTESPOROCARPSSPOROCYSTSSPOROCYSTIC

Could you have found SPOROCYTES?

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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