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AQUAPHOBICS
Definition of AQUAPHOBICS
noun
plural of aquaphobic
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Word DNA
AQUAPHOBICS inherits its ancestry from its root, AQUAPHOBIC.
How it is built
Same root, AQUAPHOBIC · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AQUAPHOBICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AQUAPHOBICS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABCHIOPQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start AQUAPHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AQUAPHOBICS?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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