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PHRENOLOGY
Definition of PHRENOLOGY
noun
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From phreno- + -logy.
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.
PHRENOLOGY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 219 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHRENOLOGY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EGHLNOOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears 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 PHRENO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found PHRENOLOGY?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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