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PESTLE
Definition of PESTLE
noun
A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.
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.
PESTLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PESTLE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EELPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found PESTLE?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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