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PERFUME
Definition of PERFUME
noun
A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French parfum, perfum. Doublet of parfum.
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.
PERFUME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PERFUME starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEFMPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PERFUM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found PERFUME?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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