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AUTOCEPHALY
Definition of AUTOCEPHALY
noun
The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From autocephalous + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AUTOCEPHALY · 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.
AUTOCEPHALY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOCEPHALY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACEHLOPTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start AUTOCEP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found AUTOCEPHALY?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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