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VIROPHAGE
Definition of VIROPHAGE
noun
Any virus that infects other viruses.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From viro- + -phage.
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.
VIROPHAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 123, 20 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 123, 20 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VIROPHAGE starts with V and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGHIOPRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found VIROPHAGE?
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 123 - and most players walked straight past it.
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