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PARTON
Definition of PARTON
noun
Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARTON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 89, 17 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARTON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ANOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PARTON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARTON?
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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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