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SYPHILOLOGY
Definition of SYPHILOLOGY
noun
The scientific study of, and treatment of, syphilis.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From syphilo- + -logy.
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.
SYPHILOLOGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 89 days.
Built from these letters
SYPHILOLOGY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read GHILLOOPSYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y, L and O appear more than once.
Words that start SYPHILO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SYPHILOLOGY?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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