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QUADRAPHONICS
Definition of QUADRAPHONICS
noun
quadraphonic sound
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From quadraphony + -ics or quadra- + -phonics.
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.
QUADRAPHONICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUADRAPHONICS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACDHINOPQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUADRAPHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found QUADRAPHONICS?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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