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PAINTURE
Definition of PAINTURE
noun
The art of painting.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English peynture, from Old French peinture, from Late Latin *pinctūra; by surface analysis, paint + -ure. See paint and compare picture.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAINTURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAINTURE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PAINTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAINTURE?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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