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PHENOBARBITAL
Definition of PHENOBARBITAL
noun
A narcotic and sedative barbiturate drug used chiefly to treat epilepsy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pheno- + barbital.
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.
PHENOBARBITAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 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
PHENOBARBITAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AABBEHILNOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. B and A appear more than once.
Words that start PHENOBARB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHENOBARBITAL?
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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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