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PLACEBO
Definition of PLACEBO
noun
A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English placebo, borrowed from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“to please”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLACEBO · 2 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.
PLACEBO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 85 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 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 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLACEBO starts with P and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ABCELOP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found PLACEBO?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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