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PINACOID

8 letters

Definition of PINACOID

noun

The face of a crystal parallel to two of the axes.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Ancient Greek πινάκιον (pinákion, “slab, tablet”) + -oid.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Tier
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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.

PINACOID in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 119
Its one board, across 119 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
112
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

toddthelinguist

on Day 112, 9 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PINACOID
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

PINACOID starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ACDIINOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start PINACO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PINACOIDSPINACOIDALPINACOTHECA

Could you have found PINACOID?

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 112 - and most players walked straight past it.

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