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PAIN

PAIN is a genuine outlier — when it sat on the grid, almost no one found it.

Definition

noun

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

Definition via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

PAIN in OUTLIER

It has appeared once in the daily puzzle so far. Its rarest showing was OUTLIER — worth 100 points.

The word, broken down

4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Distinct letters

PAIN starts with P and ends with N. Its letters in order are AINP — useful if you are hunting it on a scrambled grid.

Is PAIN a valid word?

Yes. PAIN is accepted in OUTLIER, the daily word game where every word is scored on how few players found it. The rarer the word, the higher it scores — and PAIN has been worth up to 100 points.

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