The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
DYNES
Definition of DYNES
noun
plural of dyne
noun
A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.
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Word DNA
DYNES inherits its ancestry from its root, DYNE.
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.4%
of traced words share this origin (10,104)
branch · 12.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DYNE · 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.
DYNES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DYNES starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found DYNES?
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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.
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