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SPECTINOMYCIN
Definition of SPECTINOMYCIN
noun
An aminocyclitol antibiotic produced by the bacterium Streptomyces spectabilis.
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Where it comes from
From translingual spect(abilis)[Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SPECTINOMYCIN · 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.
SPECTINOMYCIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SPECTINOMYCIN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CCEIIMNNOPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, I and N appear more than once.
Could you have found SPECTINOMYCIN?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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