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PARDONABLY
Definition of PARDONABLY
adverb
In a pardonable manner.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pardonable + -ly.
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.
PARDONABLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 82, 10 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PARDONABLY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AABDLNOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PARDON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PARDONABLY?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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