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PINCUSHIONS
Definition of PINCUSHIONS
noun
plural of pincushion
noun
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
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Word DNA
PINCUSHIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, PINCUSHION.
How it is built
Same root, PINCUSHION · 1 relative 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.
PINCUSHIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PINCUSHIONS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CHIINNOPSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I, N and S appear more than once.
Could you have found PINCUSHIONS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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