The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PYROXYLINE
Definition of PYROXYLINE
noun
Archaic form of pyroxylin.
noun
A highly inflammable form of nitrocellulose; used in the manufacture of collodion and lacquers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PYROXYLINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 161, 28 October 2026.
Built from these letters
PYROXYLINE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EILNOPRXYY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. Y appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PYROXY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PYROXYLINE?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER