The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ASTROPHILE
Definition of ASTROPHILE
noun
One who loves stars or astronomy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From astro- + -phile.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASTROPHILE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASTROPHILE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEHILOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ASTROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ASTROPHILE?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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