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PICEOUS
Definition of PICEOUS
adjective
Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch.
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Where it comes from
From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PICEOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 89, 17 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 89, 17 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PICEOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIOPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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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 89 - and most players walked straight past it.
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