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APHORIST
Definition of APHORIST
noun
A person who creates or recites aphorisms.
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Other senses
APHORIST carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A writer of aphorisms.
noun
A writer or utterer of aphorisms.
noun
A person who writes or recites aphorisms.
noun
someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
Word DNA
How it is built
APHORIST in a sentence
“Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APHORIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 78 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 46, 5 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
APHORIST starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AHIOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start APHORI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found APHORIST?
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 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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