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PAINTWORK
Definition of PAINTWORK
noun
The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From paint + work.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
PAINTWORK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 47 days.
First found by a player on Day 83, 11 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PAINTWORK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AIKNOPRTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PAINTW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PAINTWORK?
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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.
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