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SUBDERMAL

9 letters

Definition of SUBDERMAL

adjective

just below the skin

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Other senses

SUBDERMAL carries 2 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Located or placed beneath the skin; subcutaneous.

  2. Beneath the skin; hypodermal; subcutaneous.

Where it comes from

From sub- + dermal.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompoundsub-

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SUBDERMAL in a sentence

“Since the monitor will be in such close proximity to these subdermal sensors, the readings should be far more accurate than with wearable monitors.”

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Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

SUBDERMAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 103 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 148
Its 45 boards, across 148 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
45
Boards found on
34
First board
148
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

tatakata

on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

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

SUBDERMAL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ABDELMRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start SUBDER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SUBDERMAL?

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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

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