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PERICULOUS

10 letters

Definition of PERICULOUS

adjective

dangerous, hazardous, perilous

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin periculosus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”). Doublet of perilous.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

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

PERICULOUS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
105
First board
118
Latest board
13
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 105, 2 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 105, 2 September 2026.

Built from these letters

PERICULOUS
10
Letters
5
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PERICULOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEILOPRSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Could you have found PERICULOUS?

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 105 - and most players walked straight past it.

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