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TRYPANOSOME
Definition of TRYPANOSOME
noun
Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea Any member of the genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness. Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease. Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from translingual Trypanosoma. By surface analysis, trypano- + -some.
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.
TRYPANOSOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 33, 22 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TRYPANOSOME starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMNOOPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start TRYPANO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 33
Could you have found TRYPANOSOME?
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 33 - and most players walked straight past it.
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