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PENETRABLE
Definition of PENETRABLE
adjective
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English penetrable, penytrable, from Old French penetrable, from Medieval Latin penetrābilis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,072)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PENETRABLE · 1 relative 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.
PENETRABLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PENETRABLE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEEELNPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PENETR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PENETRABLE?
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 169 - and most players walked straight past it.
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