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PICOGRAM

8 letters

Definition of PICOGRAM

noun

An SI unit of mass equal to 10 grams. Symbol: pg

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Other senses

PICOGRAM carries 2 further meanings.

  1. noun

    One trillionth (10−12) of a gram.

  2. noun

    A unit of mass equal to 0.000 000 000 001 grams. Symbol: pg

Where it comes from

From pico- + gram.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

nouncompoundpico-

Same root, PICOGRAM · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

PICOGRAM in a sentence

“Remember that Contador tested positive for 50 picograms (a picogram is a trillionth of a gram) of clenbuterol per milliliter of urine.”

The Explainer: Why clenbuterol?, 2010

Rarity score
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Tier
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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.

PICOGRAM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 126 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 160
Its 46 boards, across 160 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
46
Boards found on
10
First board
158
Latest board
19
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PICOGRAM
8
Letters
3
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PICOGRAM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read ACGIMOPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PICOGR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PICOGRAM?

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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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