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PESTIFEROUS
Definition of PESTIFEROUS
adjective
Containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Mid 15th century, in sense “mischievous, pernicious”, from Latin pestifer (“bearing plague”), from pestis (“plague”) + -fer (“carrying”). By surface analysis, pesti- + -ferous (“bearing, carrying”).
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.
PESTIFEROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESTIFEROUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEFIOPRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear 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 PESTIFE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PESTIFEROUS?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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