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PATRILINY
Definition of PATRILINY
noun
patrilineal society
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PATRILINY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.
Built from these letters
PATRILINY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AIILNPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PATRIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PATRILINY?
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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