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PANDEMICS
Definition of PANDEMICS
noun
plural of pandemic
adjective
Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
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Word DNA
PANDEMICS inherits its ancestry from its root, PANDEMIC.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,625)
How it is built
Same root, PANDEMIC · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANDEMICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 59 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PANDEMICS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIMNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PANDEM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PANDEMICS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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