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PLENILUNE

/ˈpliːnɪluːn/9 letters

Definition of PLENILUNE

noun

The full moon.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Latin plēnilūnium, from plēnus (“full”) + lūna (“moon”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

30.6%

of traced words share this origin (24,726)

Italic

branch · 30.6% of traced words

How it is built

noun3 syllablescompound

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

PLENILUNE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 161
Its one board, across 161 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
154
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

kat5

on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

PLENILUNE
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PLENILUNE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEILLNNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. L, E and N appear more than once.

Words that start PLENIL

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

PLENILUNARPLENILUNES

Could you have found PLENILUNE?

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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.

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