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HALOPHILES
Definition of HALOPHILES
noun
plural of halophile
noun
An organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile
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Word DNA
HALOPHILES inherits its ancestry from its root, HALOPHILE.
How it is built
Same root, HALOPHILE · 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.
HALOPHILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HALOPHILES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHHILLOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. H and L appear more than once.
Words that start HALOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HALOPHILES?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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