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PHONOGRAM
Definition of PHONOGRAM
noun
A character or symbol (grapheme) that represents a sound, as opposed to logograms and determinatives.
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Other senses
PHONOGRAM carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A character or symbol, as in a phonetic alphabet, representing a word or phoneme in speech.
noun
A graphic character representing a sound of the human voice.
noun
The record of sound produced by a phonograph, or the sheet of tin-foil or cylinder of wax on which it is produced.
noun
A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
Where it comes from
From phono- + -gram.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PHONOGRAM · 1 relative 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.
PHONOGRAM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 115 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 5, 26 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHONOGRAM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AGHMNOOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PHONOG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found PHONOGRAM?
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 5 - and most players walked straight past it.
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