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ASTROPHIC
Definition of ASTROPHIC
adjective
Not written in stanza form.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a- + strophic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASTROPHIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASTROPHIC starts with A and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACHIOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ASTROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASTROPHIC?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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