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PYROGENIC

9 letters

Definition of PYROGENIC

adjective

Generating or produced by heat, especially in the body; causing or caused by fever.

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Other senses

PYROGENIC carries 4 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Producing or produced by fever.

  2. adjective

    Caused by or generating heat.

  3. adjective

    Of or relating to solid rock formed from molten rock; igneous.

  4. In geology, having an igneous origin; igneous.

Where it comes from

From pyro- + -genic.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjectivecompound-genicpyro-

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Rarity score
Withheld
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Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PYROGENIC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 109 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 42 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
42
Boards found on
24
First board
150
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PYROGENIC
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PYROGENIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEGINOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start PYROGE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PYROGENPYROGENSPYROGENOUSPYROGENETICPYROGENICITYPYROGENICITIES

Could you have found PYROGENIC?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

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