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PHAETONS
Definition of PHAETONS
noun
plural of phaeton
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Another sense
PHAETONS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of phaeton.
Word DNA
PHAETONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PHAETON.
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,081)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHAETON · 1 relative in the game
PHAETONS in a sentence
“High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHAETONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 126 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 37, 26 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHAETONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEHNOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found PHAETONS?
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 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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