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PEANS

/ˈpiːnz/5 letters

Definition of PEANS

noun

plural of pean

PEAN

noun

A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.

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Word DNA

PEANS inherits its ancestry from its root, PEAN.

Line of descent

  1. Middle French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle French

Deepest traced root

13th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.1%

of traced words share this origin (338)

Romance

branch · 15.4% of traced words

How it is built

noun1 syllable

Same root, PEAN · 3 relatives in the game

Every Middle French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PEANS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 150
Its 12 boards, across 150 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
72
First board
135
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.

First found by a player on Day 72, 31 July 2026.

Built from these letters

PEANS
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PEANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AENPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Could you have found PEANS?

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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.

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