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PEDANTIC
Definition of PEDANTIC
adjective
Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pedant + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PEDANTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 80 boards so far. 486 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PEDANTIC starts with P and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACDEINPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PEDANT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found PEDANTIC?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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