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ZYGAENID
Definition of ZYGAENID
noun
Any member of the moth family Zygaenidae.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from taxonomic name Zygaenidae, from Zygaena.
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.
ZYGAENID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 114 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZYGAENID starts with Z and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEGINYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZYGAEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found ZYGAENID?
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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