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PESTICIDAL
Definition of PESTICIDAL
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or effective as a pesticide.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pesticide + -al or pest + -icidal.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
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.
PESTICIDAL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 55, 14 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 55, 14 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESTICIDAL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIILPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
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 PESTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 55
Could you have found PESTICIDAL?
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 55 - and most players walked straight past it.
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