The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ZYMOLOGIES
Definition of ZYMOLOGIES
Wiktionary has no entry for ZYMOLOGIES itself. This is its base word, ZYMOLOGY.
noun
The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beermaking and winemaking; zymurgy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for ZYMOLOGY.
From zymo- (prefix meaning ‘fermentation’) + -logy (suffix denoting the study of a particular subject).
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.
ZYMOLOGIES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZYMOLOGIES starts with Z and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGILMOOSYZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ZYMOLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ZYMOLOGIES?
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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER