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PHEASANT
Definition of PHEASANT
noun
A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English fesaunt, fesant, from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós), meaning “[bird] of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”, from where, it was supposed, the bird spread to the west. Replaced native Old English wōrhana, a variant of mōrhana. More at moorhen.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,977)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHEASANT · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHEASANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 162 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PHEASANT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAEHNPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PHEASA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found PHEASANT?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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