The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PANTILES
Definition of PANTILES
noun
plural of pantile
noun
A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S-shaped (ogee) cross section.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
PANTILES inherits its ancestry from its root, PANTILE.
How it is built
Same root, PANTILE · 2 relatives 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.
PANTILES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 86, 14 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 86, 14 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANTILES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEILNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PANTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANTILES?
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 86 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER