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PYRE
Definition of PYRE
noun
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
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.
PYRE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 145 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PYRE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PYRE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found PYRE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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