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PENT

/pɛnt/4 letters

Definition of PENT

noun

Confinement; concealment.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From pen + -t.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

noun1 syllablecompound

Same root, PEN · 10 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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.

PENT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 166
Its 22 boards, across 166 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
22
Boards found on
30
First board
165
Latest board
24
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PENT
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ENPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PENT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PENT?

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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.

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