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ZOOPHAGY
Definition of ZOOPHAGY
noun
The feeding on animals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From zoo- (“relating to animals”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ZOOPHAGY · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ZOOPHAGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 11 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ZOOPHAGY starts with Z and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGHOOPYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZOOPHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found ZOOPHAGY?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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