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TRIPHONE

/ˈtɹaɪ.fəʊn/8 letters

Definition of TRIPHONE

noun

A triplet of adjacent phones.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From tri- + phone.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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.

TRIPHONE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its 5 boards, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
47
First board
118
Latest board
39
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

dragonmorphSUPPORTER

on Day 47, 6 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

TRIPHONE
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

TRIPHONE starts with T and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHINOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start TRIPHO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

TRIPHONESTRIPHOSPHATETRIPHOSPHATES

Could you have found TRIPHONE?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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