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PANACHE
Definition of PANACHE
noun
An ornamental plume on a helmet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Italian
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PANACHE · 2 relatives 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.
PANACHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 50 boards so far. 199 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANACHE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEHNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PANACH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found PANACHE?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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