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POLYMYXIN
Definition of POLYMYXIN
noun
Any of several toxic antibiotics, derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa, used to treat infections by gram-negative bacteria
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Where it comes from
From translingual polymyxa + -in, from Bacillus polymyxa, from which the antibiotic was isolated.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, POLYMYXIN · 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.
POLYMYXIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POLYMYXIN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ILMNOPXYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found POLYMYXIN?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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