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PAULOWNIA
Definition of PAULOWNIA
noun
Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
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.
PAULOWNIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAULOWNIA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAILNOPUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found PAULOWNIA?
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 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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