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SQUALOID
Definition of SQUALOID
adjective
Characteristic of a shark or dogfish
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin squālus (“a large sea fish; a shark”) + English -oid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SQUALOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First found by a player on Day 45, 4 July 2026.
Built from these letters
SQUALOID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADILOQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found SQUALOID?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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