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PENNIS

/ˈpɛniz/6 letters

Definition of PENNIS

noun

plural of penni

PENNI

noun

A former Finnish currency unit, worth ⁄100 of the markka.

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Word DNA

PENNIS inherits its ancestry from its root, PENNI.

Line of descent

  1. Finnish
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Finnish

Deepest traced root

51st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0%

of traced words share this origin (37)

Uralic

branch · 0.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, PENNI · 1 relative in the game

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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.

PENNIS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 178
Its one board, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
169
First board
9
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 169, 5 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.

First ever to find it

limewich

on Day 169, 5 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PENNIS
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PENNIS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EINNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.

Could you have found PENNIS?

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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