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SYNDROME

/ˈsɪndɹəʊm/8 letters

Definition of SYNDROME

noun

A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.

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Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from σύνδρομος (súndromos, “running together”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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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.

SYNDROME in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 24 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 24 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
24
Boards found on
26
First board
107
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

SYNDROME
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
8
Different letters
5
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start SYNDRO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SYNDROMESSYNDROMIC

Could you have found SYNDROME?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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