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PHILOMELA
About PHILOMELA
PHILOMELA is a valid 9-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHILOMELA 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 20 days.
First found by a player on Day 110, 7 September 2026.
Built from these letters
PHILOMELA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEHILLMOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once.
Words that start PHILOM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHILOMELA?
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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