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VIRUSOID
Definition of VIRUSOID
noun
A circular single-stranded RNA, similar but not identical to a viroid, dependent on plant viruses for replication and encapsidation.
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Where it comes from
From virus + -oid.
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.
VIRUSOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VIRUSOID starts with V and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DIIORSUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start VIRUSO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found VIRUSOID?
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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.
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