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PINATE
Definition of PINATE
noun
Any salt or ester of pinic acid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PINATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 168, 4 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 168, 4 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PINATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEINPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PINATE?
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 168 - and most players walked straight past it.
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