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PITEOUS
Definition of PITEOUS
adjective
Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pitous, from Old French piteus, pitus.
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.
PITEOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 46 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PITEOUS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PITEOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found PITEOUS?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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