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PATHBREAKING
Definition of PATHBREAKING
adjective
Opening a new path or approach
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From path + breaking.
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.
PATHBREAKING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 76 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATHBREAKING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AABEGHIKNPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found PATHBREAKING?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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