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PAILLON
Definition of PAILLON
noun
A thin leaf of metal, for use in gilding or enamelling, or to show through a translucent medium.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
French, from paille (“straw”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,509)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAILLON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAILLON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AILLNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PAILLO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAILLON?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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