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NECROPHOBIA
Definition of NECROPHOBIA
noun
An abnormal fear of death or corpses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
NECROPHOBIA carries 3 further meanings.
noun
A morbid horror of dead bodies.
noun
Ail exaggerated fear of death; thanatophobia.
noun
An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
Where it comes from
From necro- + -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
NECROPHOBIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 151 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NECROPHOBIA starts with N and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read ABCEHINOOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start NECROPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found NECROPHOBIA?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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