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PYROGENIC
Definition of PYROGENIC
adjective
Generating or produced by heat, especially in the body; causing or caused by fever.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pyro- + -genic.
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.
PYROGENIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
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.
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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