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PENDULOUS
Definition of PENDULOUS
adjective
Hanging from, or as if from, a support.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).
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.
PENDULOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PENDULOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DELNOPSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start PENDUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found PENDULOUS?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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