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PANGOLINS
Definition of PANGOLINS
noun
plural of pangolin
noun
Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.
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Word DNA
PANGOLINS inherits its ancestry from its root, PANGOLIN.
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.
PANGOLINS 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 4 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
PANGOLINS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AGILNNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PANGOLINS?
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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