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XYLOPHONES
Definition of XYLOPHONES
noun
plural 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.
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Another sense
XYLOPHONES carries a second meaning.
noun
Plural form of xylophone.
Word DNA
XYLOPHONES inherits its ancestry from its root, XYLOPHONE.
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.
XYLOPHONES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 353 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 found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
XYLOPHONES starts with X and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EHLNOOPSXY - 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 XYLOPHONES?
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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