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PISTOU
Definition of PISTOU
noun
A Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil, similar to pesto.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French pistou.
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.
PISTOU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PISTOU starts with P and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read IOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PISTOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PISTOU?
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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.
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