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PILFERS
Definition of PILFERS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of pilfer
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Another sense
PILFERS carries a second meaning.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pilfer.
Word DNA
PILFERS inherits its ancestry from its root, PILFER.
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (860)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PILFER · 4 relatives in the game
PILFERS in a sentence
“In Kifowit's 'defense' It is just status quo for how the city council pilfers and waste mine and yours tax dollars.”
Spending Addicts on Aurora City Council Resist Lawrence-Weisner Crackdown on Ward Slush Funds, 2009
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PILFERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 36 boards so far. 161 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PILFERS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EFILPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PILFER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found PILFERS?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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