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PANGOLIN
Definition of PANGOLIN
noun
Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) + guling (“to roll”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Malay
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (92)
branch · 0.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PANGOLIN · 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.
PANGOLIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANGOLIN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AGILNNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Could you have found PANGOLIN?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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