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PISTOLEER
Definition of PISTOLEER
noun
A person, especially a soldier, armed with a pistol
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French pistolier.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (336)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PISTOLE · 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.
PISTOLEER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PISTOLEER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EEILOPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start PISTOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PISTOLEER?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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