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PEONY
Definition of PEONY
noun
A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).
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.
PEONY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 42 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PEONY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ENOPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found PEONY?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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