The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

PACHINKOS

9 letters

Definition of PACHINKOS

noun

plural of pachinko

PACHINKO

noun

A mechanical ball-dropping game similar to pinball, popular in Japan.

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Word DNA

PACHINKOS inherits its ancestry from its root, PACHINKO.

Line of descent

  1. Japanese
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Japanese

Deepest traced root

25th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.4%

of traced words share this origin (296)

Japonic

branch · 0.4% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, PACHINKO · 1 relative in the game

Every Japanese word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PACHINKOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 17 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
17
Boards found on
40
First board
155
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

dumb

on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PACHINKOS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PACHINKOS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHIKNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PACHIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PACHINKOS?

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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.

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