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HYPOBARIC

9 letters

Definition of HYPOBARIC

adjective

Of, relating to, or using less than normal air pressure.

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Other senses

HYPOBARIC carries 2 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Below normal pressure.

  2. adjective

    Of, relating to, or utilizing less than normal pressure (as in air pressure).

Where it comes from

From hypo- + baric.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompoundhypo-

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

HYPOBARIC in a sentence

“Roach placed his volunteers in a large metal box called a hypobaric chamber and gradually sucked out air with a vacuum pump, reducing atmospheric pressure to mimic a high altitude, low-oxygen environment.”

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com, 2012

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

HYPOBARIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 96 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 165
Its 34 boards, across 165 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
34
Boards found on
19
First board
162
Latest board
27
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.

Built from these letters

HYPOBARIC
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HYPOBARIC starts with H and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ABCHIOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start HYPOBA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HYPOBARIA

Could you have found HYPOBARIC?

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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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