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SKYR
Definition of SKYR
noun
A yogurt-like product made of curdled milk, curds stored up for food; a thick dairy product unique to Icelandic cuisine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SKYR carries 2 further meanings.
noun
Curds; bonnyclabber.
noun
a yogurt-like product made of curdled milk, curds stored up for food; a thick dairy product unique to Icelandic cuisine that can be traced back to the Vikings
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Icelandic skyr.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Icelandic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
36th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (55)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SKYR · 3 relatives in the game
SKYR in a sentence
“If I put kiwi fruit in my skyr, is there some kind of ancestral retribution that will fall upon my head?”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKYR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SKYR starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read KRSY - 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 SKYR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found SKYR?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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