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PINFOLD
Definition of PINFOLD
noun
An open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pinfold, punfold, punfald, variants of Middle English pundfold, pundfald, from Old English pundfald (“pinfold”), equivalent to pound (“pen, enclosure”) + fold.
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.
PINFOLD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 95, 23 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PINFOLD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DFILNOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PINFOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PINFOLD?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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