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PANTOUM
Definition of PANTOUM
noun
A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
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Where it comes from
From French pantoum, from Malay pantun.
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.
PANTOUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 66, 25 July 2026.
Built from these letters
PANTOUM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AMNOPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PANTOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANTOUM?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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