The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

POLYPHONS

9 letters

Definition of POLYPHONS

noun

plural of polyphon

POLYPHON

noun

A wooden-cased music box of a kind typically manufactured in Germany.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

Same root, POLYPHON · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

POLYPHONS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 166
Its 2 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
152
First board
159
Latest board
7
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First found by a player on Day 152, 19 October 2026.

Built from these letters

POLYPHONS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
7
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

POLYPHONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HLNOOPPSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and O appear more than once.

Words that start POLYPH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found POLYPHONS?

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 152 - and most players walked straight past it.

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