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PYROMANIA
Definition of PYROMANIA
noun
A compulsive disorder characterized by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PYROMANIA carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The irresistible urge to start fires.
noun
A mania for destroying things by fire; a form of insanity marked by a mania for setting things on fire.
noun
An insane disposition to incendiarism.
noun
A compulsive disorder characterised by obsession with fire or uncontrollable urges to start fires.
Where it comes from
From pyro- + -mania.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PYROMANIA · 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.
PYROMANIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 40 boards so far. 125 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PYROMANIA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAIMNOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PYROMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found PYROMANIA?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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