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PILCHARDS

9 letters

Definition of PILCHARDS

noun

plural of pilchard

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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.

PILCHARDS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 14 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
24
First board
102
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

vituperation

on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PILCHARDS
9
Letters
2
Vowels
7
Consonants
9
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start PILCHA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PILCHARDS?

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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.

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