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SUBCOLONY

9 letters

Definition of SUBCOLONY

noun

A colony belonging to another colony.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From sub- + colony.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SUBCOLONY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 123
Its one board, across 123 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
75
First board
48
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.

First ever to find it

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on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SUBCOLONY
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SUBCOLONY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read BCLNOOSUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.

Words that start SUBCOL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUBCOLLEGESUBCOLLEGESSUBCOLONIESSUBCOLLECTIONSUBCOLLEGIATESUBCOLLECTIONS

Could you have found SUBCOLONY?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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