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PEDICULOUS
Definition of PEDICULOUS
adjective
Alternative form of pedicular.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Latin pediculosus. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -ous.
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.
PEDICULOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 91, 19 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PEDICULOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEILOPSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start PEDICU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PEDICULOUS?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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