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AUTOPHANOUS
Definition of AUTOPHANOUS
adjective
Producing its own light.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From auto- + Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “appear, shine”), compare -phanous (“appearing”).
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.
AUTOPHANOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 112, 9 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOPHANOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAHNOOPSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, U and O appear more than once.
Words that start AUTOPHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTOPHANOUS?
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 112 - and most players walked straight past it.
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