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PIQUANT
Definition of PIQUANT
adjective
Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.
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.
PIQUANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 219 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIQUANT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AINPQTU - 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.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found PIQUANT?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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