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STYLOPHONE
Definition of STYLOPHONE
noun
A small synthesizer operated using a stylus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From stylo- + -phone. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Was it consciously chosen to rhyme with xylophone?”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, STYLOPHONE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
STYLOPHONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STYLOPHONE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHLNOOPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start STYLOP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STYLOPHONE?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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