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PEKANS
Definition of PEKANS
noun
plural of pekan
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PEKANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PEKANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEKNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PEKANS?
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 83 - and most players walked straight past it.
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