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GERONTOPHIL
About GERONTOPHIL
GERONTOPHIL is a valid 11-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
Same root, GERONTOPHIL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GERONTOPHIL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 109, 6 September 2026.
Built from these letters
GERONTOPHIL starts with G and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EGHILNOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start GERONTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GERONTOPHIL?
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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