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PITHEADS
Definition of PITHEADS
noun
plural of pithead
PITHEAD
noun
The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.
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Word DNA
PITHEADS inherits its ancestry from its root, PITHEAD.
How it is built
Same root, PITHEAD · 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.
PITHEADS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
Built from these letters
PITHEADS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEHIPST - 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 PITHEA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PITHEADS?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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