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PHENOMS
Definition of PHENOMS
noun
plural of phenom
noun
Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a promising young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf.
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Another sense
PHENOMS carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of phenom.
Word DNA
PHENOMS inherits its ancestry from its root, PHENOM.
How it is built
Same root, PHENOM · 2 relatives in the game
PHENOMS in a sentence
“Food Network fans will enjoy a wide array of cross channel familiar faces, as Scripps takes advantage of its powerhouse of celebrity foodie talent, including first name phenoms Rachel, Bobby, Jamie, and Giada.”
Food Network Sibling, Cooking Channel, Launches Today « Art & Business of Motion, 2010
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHENOMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 143 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHENOMS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHMNOPS - 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 PHENOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found PHENOMS?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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