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AVIOPHOBIA
Definition of AVIOPHOBIA
noun
Fear of flying.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Possibly from French avion (“airplane”) + -phobia
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7%
of traced words share this origin (1,806)
branch · 15.1% of traced words
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.
AVIOPHOBIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 128, 25 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 128, 25 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AVIOPHOBIA starts with A and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABHIIOOPV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, I and O appear more than once.
Could you have found AVIOPHOBIA?
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 128 - and most players walked straight past it.
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