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PACOS

5 letters

Definition of PACOS

noun

plural of paco

PACO

noun

An alpaca.

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Word DNA

PACOS inherits its ancestry from its root, PACO.

Line of descent

  1. Spanish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Spanish

Deepest traced root

12th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (988)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PACO · 1 relative in the game

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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.

PACOS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its 2 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
114
First board
160
Latest board
46
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 114, 11 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First ever to find it

deanbean

on Day 160, 27 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PACOS
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found PACOS?

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 114 - and most players walked straight past it.

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