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NOTAPHILY
Definition of NOTAPHILY
noun
The study or collecting of paper money or banknotes
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin nota + English -phily.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NOTAPHILY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOTAPHILY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AHILNOPTY - 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 NOTAPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOTAPHILY?
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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