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PANEGYRICAL
Definition of PANEGYRICAL
adjective
Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From panegyric + -al.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANEGYRICAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANEGYRICAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AACEGILNPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PANEGYR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANEGYRICAL?
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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.
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