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PSAMMON
Definition of PSAMMON
noun
The community of organisms living in the sandy, moist habitat along a shoreline.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From psammo- + -on, to be analogous to plankton.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PSAMMON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PSAMMON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AMMNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PSAMMO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PSAMMON?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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