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PENURIOUS
Definition of PENURIOUS
adjective
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
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.
PENURIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 23 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PENURIOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EINOPRSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start PENURI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found PENURIOUS?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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