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PILEUM
Definition of PILEUM
noun
The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.
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Where it comes from
From Latin pileum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PILEUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 73 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PILEUM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EILMPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PILEUM?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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