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NEOPHILIA
Definition of NEOPHILIA
noun
The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From neo- + -philia.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, NEOPHILIA · 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.
NEOPHILIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NEOPHILIA starts with N and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEHIILNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start NEOPHI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NEOPHILIA?
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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