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PROTONIC
Definition of PROTONIC
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or composed of protons.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PROTONIC carries 2 further meanings.
Preceding the tone or accent.
Of or pertaining to a proton or anlage. See proton, 1.
Where it comes from
From proton + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
PROTONIC in a sentence
“The two problems that I see, besides infrastructure, comes from natural gas, but also the protonic exchange memo brain, the fuel cell itself is really, really expensive.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PROTONIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PROTONIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CINOOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start PROTON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PROTONIC?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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