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PYROLITES
Definition of PYROLITES
noun
plural of pyrolite
noun
A theoretical rock considered to be the best approximation of the composition of Earth's upper mantle, generally considered to be one part tholeiitic basalt and three parts dunite.
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Word DNA
PYROLITES inherits its ancestry from its root, PYROLITE.
How it is built
Same root, PYROLITE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PYROLITES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PYROLITES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILOPRSTY - 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 PYROLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PYROLITES?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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