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PERSIFLAGE
Definition of PERSIFLAGE
noun
Good-natured banter; raillery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PERSIFLAGE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Light good-natured talk; banter.
noun
Frivolity or mockery in discussing a subject.
noun
Light, flippant banter; idle, bantering talk or humor; an ironical, frivolous, or jeering style of treating or regarding a subject, however serious it may be.
noun
Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
Where it comes from
From French persiflage, from persifler (“to quiz, tease, mock”), from per- + siffler (“to whistle”), from Latin sībilō (“whistle”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,643)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERSIFLAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 96 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PERSIFLAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEFGILPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PERSIFLAGE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
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 PERSIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found PERSIFLAGE?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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