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AILUROPHOBE
Definition of AILUROPHOBE
noun
A person with an irrational fear or hatred of felines.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
AILUROPHOBE carries a second meaning.
noun
One who hates or fears cats.
Where it comes from
From ailuro- (“cat”) + -phobe.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AILUROPHOBE · 1 relative in the game
AILUROPHOBE in a sentence
“Val Lewton, who produced such film noir classics of the 1940s as "Cat People" and "Curse of the Cat People," actually had an abiding fear of catsa full-fledged ailurophobe...he penned several film scripts under the pseudonym of Carlos Keith!”
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AILUROPHOBE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 75 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AILUROPHOBE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEHILOOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start AILUROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found AILUROPHOBE?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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