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PHILOLOGUE
Definition of PHILOLOGUE
noun
A philologist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French philologue, from Latin philologus (“lover of learning”), from Ancient Greek φιλολόγος (philológos, “lover of words and learning”). Equivalent to philo- + -logue.
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.
PHILOLOGUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 76, 4 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 76, 4 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHILOLOGUE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGHILLOOPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L and O appear more than once.
Words that start PHILOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHILOLOGUE?
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 76 - and most players walked straight past it.
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