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PHACELIA

/fəˈsiːliə/8 letters

Definition of PHACELIA

noun

Any of many annual or perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Phacelia, native to the Americas.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from translingual Phacelia.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PHACELIA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 7 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
47
First board
108
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.

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Built from these letters

PHACELIA
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PHACELIA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEHILP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start PHACEL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PHACELIA?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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