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SKYRMION
Definition of SKYRMION
noun
Any of a particular class of topological soliton that can be used to model certain properties of a nucleon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Blend of Skyrme + fermion, after British physicist Tony Skyrme (1922–1987), who proposed the mathematical structure as a model of the nucleon in 1961.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SKYRMION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 87, 15 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SKYRMION starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IKMNORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SKYRMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SKYRMION?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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