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PANCHAX
Definition of PANCHAX
noun
Any of various tropical fish in the cyprinodontiform families Aplocheilidae and Nothobranchiidae which were formerly classified in the genus Panchax.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from translingual Panchax.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PANCHAX · 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.
PANCHAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 98, 26 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 98, 26 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PANCHAX starts with P and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read AACHNPX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PANCHA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANCHAX?
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 98 - and most players walked straight past it.
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