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PANDURA
Definition of PANDURA
noun
An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, a kind of lute with three strings that were stopped with a fingerboard to alter the tone, and with either a mandolin- or banjo-like shape.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Late Latin pandura, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra), a Pre-Greek/substrate loan. Doublet of mandola.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANDURA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANDURA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AADNPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PANDUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANDURA?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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