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PILLAGE
Definition of PILLAGE
verb
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Old French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PILLAGE · 5 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.
PILLAGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PILLAGE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGILLP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PILLAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PILLAGE?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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