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MICROPHYSICS

12 letters

Definition of MICROPHYSICS

noun

The branch of physics that deals with objects smaller than a molecule

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From micro- + physics.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompoundmicro-

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MICROPHYSICS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 167
Its one board, across 167 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
27
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 27 days.

First ever to find it

puffin

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MICROPHYSICS
12
Letters
3
Vowels
9
Consonants
9
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MICROPHYSICS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CCHIIMOPRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, C and S appear more than once.

Words that start MICROPHY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

MICROPHYLLMICROPHYTEMICROPHYLLSMICROPHYTESMICROPHYTICMICROPHYLLOUSMICROPHYSICALMICROPHYSICALLY

Could you have found MICROPHYSICS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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