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PAUCE
Definition of PAUCE
adjective
Subject to or pertaining to paucity (fewness); being scarce or insufficient.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ukos, from *peh₂w- + *-kos. Distantly related (via *peh₂w- by Grimm's law) to few.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,595)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAUCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAUCE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PAUCE?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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