Kaon
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
An unstable subatomic particle of the meson family, produced in high-energy particle collisions and containing one strange quark or antiquark.
“The decay of a kaon provided early evidence for the violation of charge-parity symmetry in particle physics.”
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ka·on
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Ends in ON, a common suffix; the AO vowel combination is unusual in English.
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Worth 8 points, the AO pairing is rare but the word is valid.
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