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PHONO
Definition of PHONO
noun
Clipping of phonograph.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Clippings.
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.
PHONO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PHONO starts with P and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read HNOOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start PHONO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PHONO?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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