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PERCENT
Definition of PERCENT
adverb
For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
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Where it comes from
From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).
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.
PERCENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 80, 8 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PERCENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEENPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PERCEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PERCENT?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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