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SUCTORIAN
Definition of SUCTORIAN
noun
A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class Phyllopharyngea; a predatory sessile ciliate.
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Where it comes from
From translingual Suctoria + -an.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
SUCTORIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 93, 21 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 93, 21 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SUCTORIAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACINORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SUCTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUCTORIAN?
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 93 - and most players walked straight past it.
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