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PILOT
Definition of PILOT
noun
A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
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Where it comes from
From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PILOT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 21 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 17, 6 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 17, 6 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PILOT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ILOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PILOT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 17
Could you have found PILOT?
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 17 - and most players walked straight past it.
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