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PIGMENT
Definition of PIGMENT
noun
Any color in plant or animal cells.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.1%
of traced words share this origin (1,232)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PIGMENT · 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.
PIGMENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 141 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 135, 2 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PIGMENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read EGIMNPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PIGMEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found PIGMENT?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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