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PIQUANCES
Definition of PIQUANCES
noun
plural of piquance
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PIQUANCE · 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.
PIQUANCES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 81, 9 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIQUANCES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEINPQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start PIQUAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PIQUANCES?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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