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PETER

/ˈpiːtə/5 letters

Definition of PETER

noun

The penis.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as slang terms for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, johnson, John Thomas, etc.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PETER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 121
Its 5 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
69
First board
96
Latest board
8
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 69, 28 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.

First ever to find it

draginous

on Day 69, 28 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PETER
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PETER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears 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.

PETRE

Words that start PETER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PETER?

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 69 - and most players walked straight past it.

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