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PHOTOPIAS
Definition of PHOTOPIAS
Wiktionary has no entry for PHOTOPIAS itself. This is its base word, PHOTOPIA.
noun
Normal daylight vision, in which the cone cells are used.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for PHOTOPIA.
From phot- + -opia.
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.
PHOTOPIAS 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 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHOTOPIAS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHIOOPPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and O appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PHOTOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PHOTOPIAS?
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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