The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PERSTRINGED
Definition of PERSTRINGED
verb
simple past and past participle of perstringe
PERSTRINGE
verb
To censure; criticize.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Word DNA
PERSTRINGED inherits its ancestry from its root, PERSTRINGE.
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.9%
of traced words share this origin (9,181)
branch · 32.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PERSTRINGE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PERSTRINGED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PERSTRINGED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DEEGINPRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and R appear more than once.
Words that start PERSTRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PERSTRINGED?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER