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PESSARY
Definition of PESSARY
noun
A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pessarie, from Old French pessaire, from Latin pessarium.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
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.
PESSARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESSARY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AEPRSSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PESSAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PESSARY?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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