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PENTACLE
Definition of PENTACLE
noun
A flat talisman, almost always star-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.
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Where it comes from
From Middle French pentacle, from Old French pentacol (“pendant”), from pent (“hangs”), a (“from”), and col (“neck”), thus "hangs from neck". Likely reanalyzed in medieval times as coming from penta- (“five”) and -culum (object forming suffix), as evidenced by the Latinized form pentaculum and the narrowing of the modern sense to a five-pointed design, especially a pentagram.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- Middle French
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,860)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PENTACLE · 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.
PENTACLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 62 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PENTACLE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEELNPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PENTAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found PENTACLE?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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