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PLAZA
Definition of PLAZA
noun
A town's public square.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, place, and platz.
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.
PLAZA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 95 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLAZA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AALPZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PLAZA?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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