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TERATOLOGIST

12 letters

Definition of TERATOLOGIST

noun

A scientist specializing in teratology.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From teratology + -ist.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-ist

Same root, TERATOLOGY · 3 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

TERATOLOGIST in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its 2 boards, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
106
First board
148
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

cvwcccPATRON

on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TERATOLOGIST
12
Letters
5
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TERATOLOGIST starts with T and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGILOORSTTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and O appear more than once.

Words that start TERATOLO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TERATOLOGYTERATOLOGICTERATOLOGIESTERATOLOGICALTERATOLOGISTS

Could you have found TERATOLOGIST?

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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.

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