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PASTICHE
Definition of PASTICHE
noun
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,770)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PASTICHE · 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.
PASTICHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 62 boards so far. 209 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PASTICHE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIPST - 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 PASTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PASTICHE?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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