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PROTHYLS
Definition of PROTHYLS
Wiktionary has no entry for PROTHYLS itself. This is its base word, PROTHYL.
noun
Alternative form of protyle.
noun
A hypothetical base substance from which all chemical elements were believed to have been made; subatomic particles.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PROTHYL · 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.
PROTHYLS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PROTHYLS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HLOPRSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PROTHYLS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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