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PIANS
Definition of PIANS
Wiktionary has no entry for PIANS itself. This is its base word, PIAN.
noun
Yaws.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for PIAN.
Borrowed from Portuguese piã, Spanish pian, or French pian, said to be from a Tupi-Guarani word.
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.
PIANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIANS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AINPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PIANS?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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