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PENSTOCK
Definition of PENSTOCK
noun
A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
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Where it comes from
Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.
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.
PENSTOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 112, 9 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PENSTOCK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CEKNOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PENSTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PENSTOCK?
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 112 - and most players walked straight past it.
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