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PERILOUS
Definition of PERILOUS
adjective
Dangerous, full of peril.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English perilous, from Old French perilleus, equivalent to peril + -ous, from the noun peril, or from Latin perīculōsus. Doublet of periculous.
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.
PERILOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 114 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PERILOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EILOPRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PERILO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found PERILOUS?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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