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EUPHONY
Definition of EUPHONY
noun
A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
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Other senses
EUPHONY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words.
noun
Easy enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation which is pleasing to the sense; agreeable utterance.
noun
Harmonious arrangement of sounds in composition; a smooth and agreeable combination of articulate elements in any piece of writing.
noun
Synonyms Euphony, Melody, Harmony, Rhythm. Euphony in style respects simply the question of pleasing sounds in the words themselves. Melody respects the succession of sounds, especially as affected by the pitch appropriate to the thought and required by the arrangement of clauses. Harmony respects the adaptation of sound to sense. Rhythm respects the emphasis—that is, the succession of emphatic and unemphatic syllables. In music melody respects the agreeable combination of successive sounds of various pitch, while harmony respects the agreeable blending of simultaneous sounds of different pitch, the sounds in either case being from voices or musical instruments; thus, a song for children to sing must depend for its effect upon melody rather than harmony.
Where it comes from
From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as eu- + -phony.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,616)
How it is built
Same root, EUPHONY · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
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EUPHONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EUPHONY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EHNOPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of EUPHONY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start EUPHON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
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