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PAVONINE

/ˈpævəˌnaɪn/8 letters

Definition of PAVONINE

adjective

Of or pertaining to the genus Pavo or its family Pavonidae, including the peafowl.

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Where it comes from

From oblique stem of Latin pāvō, pāvōnis (“peacock, peafowl”) + -ine, ultimately from Latin pāvōnīnus, from pāvō + -īnus.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

32.5%

of traced words share this origin (8,639)

Italic

branch · 32.5% of traced words

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound-ine

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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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.

PAVONINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 132
Its one board, across 132 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
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First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

anhedonistic

on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PAVONINE
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PAVONINE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINNOPV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.

Words that start PAVONI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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