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SYRPHIAN
Definition of SYRPHIAN
adjective
Of or relating to flies of the genus Syrphus or the family Syrphidae.
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Where it comes from
From syrphus + -ian.
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.
SYRPHIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SYRPHIAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AHINPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SYRPHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SYRPHIAN?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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