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PHORETIC
Definition of PHORETIC
adjective
Of or pertaining to phoresy or to phoronts
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Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHORETIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 174, 10 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHORETIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEHIOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PHORETIC?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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