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PHONING
Definition of PHONING
verb
present participle and gerund of phone
noun
A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PHON · 5 relatives 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.
PHONING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHONING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GHINNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start PHONIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHONING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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