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XYLOPHONE
Definition of XYLOPHONE
noun
Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, XYLOPHONE · 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.
XYLOPHONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 675 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 16, 5 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
XYLOPHONE starts with X and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHLNOOPXY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start XYLOPH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found XYLOPHONE?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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