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PIMPERNEL
Definition of PIMPERNEL
noun
A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
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Where it comes from
From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).
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.
PIMPERNEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 117, 14 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIMPERNEL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read EEILMNPPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. P and E appear more than once.
Words that start PIMPER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PIMPERNEL?
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 117 - and most players walked straight past it.
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