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CYNOPHOBIA
Definition of CYNOPHOBIA
noun
An irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
CYNOPHOBIA carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Same as lyssophobia.
noun
A morbid fear of dogs.
noun
a morbid fear of dogs
Where it comes from
From cyno- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of canophobia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CYNOPHOBIA · 1 relative in the game
CYNOPHOBIA in a sentence
“For adults: 1. Animal phobias, such as arachnophobia (of spiders), ophidiophobia (of snakes) and cynophobia (of dogs)”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CYNOPHOBIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 235 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CYNOPHOBIA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABCHINOOPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start CYNOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found CYNOPHOBIA?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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