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PESTICIDE
Definition of PESTICIDE
noun
Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pest + -i- + -cide.
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.
PESTICIDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PESTICIDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEEIIPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and I appear more than once.
Words that start PESTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PESTICIDE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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