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PASTROMI
Definition of PASTROMI
noun
Dated spelling of pastrami.
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Word DNA
PASTROMI inherits its ancestry from its root, PASTRAMI.
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PASTRAMI · 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.
PASTROMI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 132 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PASTROMI starts with P and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AIMOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PASTRO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found PASTROMI?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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