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EUPHOBIA

8 letters

Definition of EUPHOBIA

noun

Fear of hearing good news.

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Where it comes from

From eu- + -phobia.

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Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-phobiaeu-

Same root, EUPHOBIA · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EUPHOBIA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 80 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 169
Its 38 boards, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
38
Boards found on
66
First board
165
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.

First ever to find it

jaromir49

on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

EUPHOBIA
8
Letters
5
Vowels
3
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

EUPHOBIA starts with E and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABEHIOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start EUPHOB

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found EUPHOBIA?

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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.

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