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PLATINUM
Definition of PLATINUM
noun
The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
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Where it comes from
From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans. Doublet of platina.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLATINUM · 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.
PLATINUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLATINUM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read AILMNPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLATIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found PLATINUM?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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