The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PENCES
Definition of PENCES
noun
plural of pence
PENNY · via pence
noun
In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ⁄240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
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Word DNA
PENCES inherits its ancestry from its root, PENNY.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,718)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PENNY · 5 relatives 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.
PENCES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PENCES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEENPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PENCES?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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