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PICTURES

/ˈpɪk.(t)ʃəz/8 letters

Definition of PICTURES

noun

plural of picture

PICTURE

noun

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

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Word DNA

PICTURES inherits its ancestry from its root, PICTURE.

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. Middle English
  3. English

2 recorded generations before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,912)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun2 syllables

Same root, PICTURE · 3 relatives in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

PICTURES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 152
Its 33 boards, across 152 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
33
Boards found on
9
First board
147
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.

Built from these letters

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

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

Same letters, different word

3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start PICTUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PICTURES?

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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.

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