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PITHY
Definition of PITHY
adjective
Concise and meaningful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pithy, pythy, equivalent to pith + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,064)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PITHY · 4 relatives 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.
PITHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 91 boards so far. 563 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PITHY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HIPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PITHY?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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