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PIGHEADED

9 letters

Definition of PIGHEADED

adjective

Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English pyge heddyde, equivalent to pig + headed.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle English
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Middle English

Deepest traced root

4th

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

7.6%

of traced words share this origin (2,178)

Germanic

branch · 22.4% of traced words

How it is built

adjectivecompound

Every Middle English 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.

PIGHEADED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 141
Its one board, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

loocay

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PIGHEADED
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PIGHEADED starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEGHIP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and D appear more than once.

Words that start PIGHEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PIGHEADEDLYPIGHEADEDNESSPIGHEADEDNESSES

Could you have found PIGHEADED?

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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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