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METAPHORICS
Definition of METAPHORICS
noun
The use of metaphor generally.
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Word DNA
METAPHORICS inherits its ancestry from its root, METAPHORIC.
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
METAPHORICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 176, 12 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 155, 22 October 2026.
Built from these letters
METAPHORICS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIMOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start METAPHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found METAPHORICS?
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 155 - and most players walked straight past it.
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