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PAINTBOXES
Definition of PAINTBOXES
noun
plural of paintbox
PAINTBOX
noun
A box used to hold an artist's paints.
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Word DNA
PAINTBOXES inherits its ancestry from its root, PAINTBOX.
How it is built
Same root, PAINTBOX · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAINTBOXES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 133, 30 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 133, 30 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAINTBOXES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEINOPSTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PAINTB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAINTBOXES?
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 133 - and most players walked straight past it.
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