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PENTACHORDS

11 letters

Definition of PENTACHORDS

noun

plural of pentachord

PENTACHORD

noun

Five notes (pitch classes) in a scale.

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Word DNA

PENTACHORDS inherits its ancestry from its root, PENTACHORD.

How it is built

nouncompoundpenta-

Same root, PENTACHORD · 1 relative 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.

PENTACHORDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 155
Its 13 boards, across 155 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
75
First board
155
Latest board
21
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 75, 3 August 2026.

Built from these letters

PENTACHORDS
11
Letters
3
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PENTACH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PENTACHORDS?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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