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PEPSIN

/ˈpɛpsɪn/6 letters

Definition of PEPSIN

noun

A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PEPSIN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
110
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

yamitenshi

on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PEPSIN
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PEPSIN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EINPPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P appears more than once.

Words that start PEPSIN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PEPSINEPEPSINSPEPSINESPEPSINATEPEPSINATEDPEPSINATESPEPSINOGENPEPSINATINGPEPSINOGENS

Could you have found PEPSIN?

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 110 - and most players walked straight past it.

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