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XENOPHOBE
Definition of XENOPHOBE
noun
One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
XENOPHOBE carries 2 further meanings.
noun
A person who is fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or of people from different countries or cultures.
noun
One who fears that which is unknown; one who fears people who are different from oneself, especially in the case of foreign people
Where it comes from
From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,605)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, XENOPHOBE · 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.
XENOPHOBE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 146 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 67, 26 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 67, 26 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
XENOPHOBE starts with X and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEEHNOOPX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start XENOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found XENOPHOBE?
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 67 - and most players walked straight past it.
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