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PHAT
Definition of PHAT
adjective
Excellent; cool; very good.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The term derives from African American Vernacular English as a deliberate misspelling of the word fat.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PHAT · 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.
PHAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 58 boards so far. 186 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PHAT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AHPT - 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 PHAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PHAT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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