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PHENOCRYST
Definition of PHENOCRYST
noun
Any relatively large crystal embedded in a more fine-grained or glassy igneous rock
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Other senses
PHENOCRYST carries 3 further meanings.
noun
A conspicuous, usually large, crystal embedded in porphyritic igneous rock.
noun
One of the prominent crystals in a porphyritic rock.
noun
One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.
Where it comes from
pheno- + -cryst
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PHENOCRYST · 1 relative in the game
PHENOCRYST in a sentence
“Fig. 9 (A, B) shows an MI believed to have formed as a two-phase mixed inclusion (melt + fluid) within a quartz phenocryst of peralkaline rhyolite (Lowenstern et al. 1991).”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHENOCRYST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 30, 19 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PHENOCRYST starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEHNOPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PHENOC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found PHENOCRYST?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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