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AILUROPHILES

12 letters

Definition of AILUROPHILES

noun

plural of ailurophile

AILUROPHILE

noun

A person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.

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Word DNA

AILUROPHILES inherits its ancestry from its root, AILUROPHILE.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

3rd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.3%

of traced words share this origin (10,613)

Hellenic

branch · 12.3% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-phileailuro-

Same root, AILUROPHILE · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

AILUROPHILES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its one board, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
161
First board
14
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.

First ever to find it

rustyPATRONContributor

on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

AILUROPHILES
12
Letters
6
Vowels
6
Consonants
10
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

AILUROPHILES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHIILLOPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and L appear more than once.

Words that start AILUROPH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found AILUROPHILES?

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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.

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