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PILAFFS
Definition of PILAFFS
noun
plural of pilaff
PILAF · via pilaff
noun
A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
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Word DNA
PILAFFS inherits its ancestry from its root, PILAF.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (775)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PILAF · 9 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.
PILAFFS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PILAFFS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AFFILPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PILAFF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PILAFFS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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