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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).
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 54 boards so far. 246 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
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.
Also seen on Day 16
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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