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PITY

/ˈpɪt.i/4 letters

Definition of PITY

noun

A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

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Where it comes from

From Middle English pitye, pitie, pittye, pitee, pite, from Anglo-Norman pité, pittee etc., from Old French pitet, pitié, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and piety.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

PITY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 121
Its 16 boards, across 121 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
26
First board
120
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

PITY
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PITY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IPTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PITY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PITYINGPITYROIDPITYINGLYPITYRIASESPITYRIASIS

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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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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