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PROTEINIC
Definition of PROTEINIC
adjective
proteinaceous
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From protein + -ic.
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.
PROTEINIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTEINIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEIINOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PROTEI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PROTEINIC?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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