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PICUL
Definition of PICUL
noun
A traditional South and East Asian unit of weight, based upon the load of a shoulder pole and varying by place and over time but usually standardized at about 60 kg.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Malay pikul, with influence from earlier Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese pico.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Dutch
- Malay
- English
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
27th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (274)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PICUL · 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.
PICUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
PICUL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CILPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PICUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PICUL?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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