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PINNACES
Definition of PINNACES
noun
plural of pinnace
noun
A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but sometimes a rowboat, and usually serving to carry messages among the larger ships of a fleet.
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Word DNA
PINNACES inherits its ancestry from its root, PINNACE.
Line of descent
- Spanish
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.2%
of traced words share this origin (925)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PINNACE · 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.
PINNACES 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 16 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
PINNACES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEINNPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PINNAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PINNACES?
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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