The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
AUTOPHONY
Definition of AUTOPHONY
noun
The unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice, breathing or other self-generated sounds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From auto- + -phony.
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.
AUTOPHONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTOPHONY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AHNOOPTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start AUTOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found AUTOPHONY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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