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YPSILOID
Definition of YPSILOID
adjective
Shaped like the letter Υ.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From ypsilon + -oid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
YPSILOID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YPSILOID starts with Y and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DIILOPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found YPSILOID?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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