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PINECONES

9 letters

Definition of PINECONES

noun

plural of pinecone

PINECONE

noun

A conical seed-bearing structure produced on a pine tree.

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Word DNA

PINECONES inherits its ancestry from its root, PINECONE.

How it is built

nouncompound

Same root, PINECONE · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PINECONES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 169
Its one board, across 169 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
10
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.

First ever to find it

graced

on Day 159, 26 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PINECONES
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PINECONES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEEINNOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.

Words that start PINECO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PINECONES?

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 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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