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PYRONES
Definition of PYRONES
noun
plural of pyrone
noun
Any of a class of cyclic chemical compounds that contain an unsaturated six-membered ring with two double bonds, one oxygen atom and a ketone functional group.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PYRON · 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.
PYRONES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PYRONES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ENOPRSY - 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.
Could you have found PYRONES?
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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.
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