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ACROPHOBIA
Definition of ACROPHOBIA
noun
phobia or strong fear of being high above ground level
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
ACROPHOBIA carries 4 further meanings.
noun
An abnormal fear of high places.
noun
Morbid fear of great heights.
noun
Fear of heights.
noun
a morbid fear of great heights
Where it comes from
From acro- + -phobia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ACROPHOBIA · 1 relative in the game
ACROPHOBIA in a sentence
“The presence of Novak in a dual role underscores the basic idea: Vertigo refracted through a cracked prism (acrophobia is further referenced in the jaw-dropping trapeze scene, the climax of both the film and the film-within-the-film).”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ACROPHOBIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 157 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACROPHOBIA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABCHIOOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and O appear more than once.
Words that start ACROPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found ACROPHOBIA?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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