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PITIFUL
Definition of PITIFUL
adjective
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
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 (5,144)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PITIFUL · 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.
PITIFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 147 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PITIFUL starts with P and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read FIILPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PITIFU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PITIFUL?
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 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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