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PENDULOUS

/ˈpɛndjʊləs/9 letters

Definition of PENDULOUS

adjective

Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

PENDULOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 100
Its 22 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
18
First board
98
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

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
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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.

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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