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PESTILENCE
Definition of PESTILENCE
noun
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pestilentia (“plague”), from pestilens (“infected, unwholesome, noxious”); equivalent to pestilent + -ence.
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.
PESTILENCE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 113, 10 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 113, 10 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESTILENCE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEEILNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start PESTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PESTILENCE?
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 113 - and most players walked straight past it.
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