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PESTILENT
Definition of PESTILENT
adjective
Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.
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.
PESTILENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PESTILENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EEILNPSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and T appear more than once.
Words that start PESTIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PESTILENT?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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