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PECTORAL
Definition of PECTORAL
adjective
Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
All senses are ultimately from Latin pectorālis, but some may have come through Old French and Middle English.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,258)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PECTORAL · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PECTORAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 106 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PECTORAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACELOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PECTOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found PECTORAL?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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