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STAPHYLINID
Definition of STAPHYLINID
noun
Any beetle of the family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Translingual Staphylinidae.
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.
STAPHYLINID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
Built from these letters
STAPHYLINID starts with S and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADHIILNPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start STAPHYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STAPHYLINID?
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 122 - and most players walked straight past it.
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