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PENCILER

8 letters

Definition of PENCILER

noun

In comic book production, a person who develops the plot and creative content, and draws an outline to be filled in by an inker.

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Where it comes from

From pencil + -er.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompound-er

Same root, PENCIL · 4 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PENCILER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
96
First board
126
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 96, 24 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 38 days.

First ever to find it

jffinnerty

on Day 96, 24 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PENCILER
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PENCILER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CEEILNPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.

Words that start PENCIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PENCILPENCILSPENCILEDPENCILERSPENCILINGPENCILLEDPENCILLERPENCILINGSPENCILLERSPENCILLINGPENCILLINGS

Could you have found PENCILER?

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 96 - and most players walked straight past it.

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