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PALMIERS

8 letters

Definition of PALMIERS

noun

plural of palmier

PALMIER

noun

A type of puff pastry biscuit made in the shape of a palm leaf and rolled in sugar.

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Word DNA

PALMIERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PALMIER.

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,529)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, PALMIER · 1 relative in the game

Every French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PALMIERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its 2 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
170
First board
172
Latest board
2
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 170, 6 November 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

wandlimb

on Day 170, 6 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PALMIERS
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PALMIERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILMPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start PALMIE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PALMIERS?

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 170 - and most players walked straight past it.

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