The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PECTEN
Definition of PECTEN
noun
The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin pecten (“comb”).
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.
PECTEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PECTEN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEENPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Could you have found PECTEN?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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