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PLEUSTON
Definition of PLEUSTON
noun
The organisms that live floating at the surface of water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek πλεῦσις (pleûsis, “sailing”), from πλέω (pléō) + -on. The -t- is on analogy with the coordinate terms.
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.
PLEUSTON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 112, 9 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 112, 9 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLEUSTON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ELNOPSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLEUST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PLEUSTON?
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 112 - and most players walked straight past it.
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