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NYCTOPHOBIC
Definition of NYCTOPHOBIC
adjective
Afflicted with nyctophobia; fearful of the dark or of night.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From nycto- + -phobic.
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.
NYCTOPHOBIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 54 days.
First found by a player on Day 111, 8 September 2026.
Built from these letters
NYCTOPHOBIC starts with N and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read BCCHINOOPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and O appear more than once.
Words that start NYCTOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NYCTOPHOBIC?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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