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PELA
Definition of PELA
noun
Synonym of Chinese wax.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From informal romanization of Chinese 白蠟 / 白蜡 (báilà).
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.
PELA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 56, 15 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 46 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 56, 15 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PELA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AELP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PELA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 56
Could you have found PELA?
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 56 - and most players walked straight past it.
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